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...seem to feel you near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight of the plains. I thank you, Lord, that I am placed so well, That you have made my freedom so complete ; That I'm no slave of whistle, clock or bell, Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street. . . . Let me be easy on the man that's down; Let me be square and generous with all. I'm careless sometimes. Lord, when I'm in town, But never let 'em say I'm mean or small! . . . Just keep...
...feet to the original arena level of the Byzantine Hippodrome, begun in the 2nd Century A. D. and completed in 330 by Constantine the Great. They were rewarded by Byzantine ceramics, early Turkish faience and discovery of the fact that the "spina" of ancient hippodromes was not always a wall running down the centre of the arena. In Constantino's hippodrome, at least, the "spina" was replaced by a wall of separated monuments. Among these were a 50-foot Egyptian obelisk originally 94 feet high and a column bearing a beheaded bronze snake from Delphi. These monuments, piped, used...
...monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above the valley of Petra. . . . The interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous story was scarcely greater than that of archaeologists. Petra is a historical mystery. It was the capital of the plundering Nabataeans whose domain...
Early in the matches the strong, deft arms of Elaine Rosenthal Keinhardt, wife of Sylvan Louis ("Spider") Reinhardt (onetime footballer), eliminated Dorothy Page, defending champion. Mrs. Reinhardt, three times Western champion, became the favorite. But Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, Wis., suppressed Mrs. Reinhardt in the semifinal. In the other half, Mrs, Pressler squeezed out an early match with an eagle to beat a birdie and win, one up. Soon she trounced Virginia Van Wie, ranking player; broke par by a stroke to trounce Mrs. David C. Gaut in the semifinal...
Successor. Wall Street doubted that a Dupont-either T. Coleman Dupont or Pierre Samuel Dupont -whose company has bought much U. S. Steel stock (TIME, Aug. 8) would succeed Judge Gary as U. S. Steel Chairman. Whom had Judge Gary recommended? No one publicly and explicitly, though theory mongers found it exciting to point out an article only last month in Collier's Weekly wherein Judge Gary saluted Calvin Coolidge and said he would have been an outstanding success in any business...