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Where past salvagers failed to raise Caligula's barge, Premier Mussolini's scientific henchmen were last week succeeding by an inverse procedure. Four great electric pumps, which they had set up at Lake Nemi's edge, were lowering the water level. By April 21, the 2,280th anniversary of Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salvaging Caligula | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Then, realizing that $39,000,000 worth of diamonds still remained to be accounted for, they looked for new victims. Antwerp is one of the two capitals of diamonds. Hence they looked for a passenger from Antwerp. On the White Star liner Olympic lists, they found the name of Grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Diamond Commerce | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

A prominent New York financier is purported to have advised the son of one of his partners, who sought advice on college electives, to choose first subjects which were hard and to choose second subjects which were interesting. Compare this attitude with that of the great mass of college student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNDERGRADUATE CRITIC | 9/28/1928 | See Source »

U. S. Meanwhile the Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, headed by intrepid Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is inching its way across the northern sands. Geologists, paleontologists, topographers, zoologists, archeologists, accompanied by 125 camels, eight motor trucks, many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gobi | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

The men from Providence bring with them the feeling that something un looked for and unexpected will happen. They are confident that their team is better by far than it has shown thus far. While defeat has been dogging the heels of the Bruins, the team is far from a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELLS OF FORMER AND PRESENT BROWN FEELING | 11/11/1927 | See Source »

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