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Pushing on, they reached the western boundary of Kaasu Province some eighty miles from the Turkestan border. There they had hoped to spend some months studying and making complete photographic records of the wall paintings in the Tun Huang grottoes. News from the coast, however, arrived at about that time that the strikes and shootings in Shanghai had resulted in what amounted to a general and anti-foreign sentiment. This was felt even in the remote west and the Harvard party were not permitted to take up their residence at the Tun Huang oasis or to make the necessary photographs...
...rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored in the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. Photographic records were made of the most important of these wall paintings which may be the subjects of a special report issued by the Fogg Museum...
...custom in Congress that a new member shall for a time shrink against the crannied wall, and then later, being seasoned in the Congressional climate, he may open the flowers of his rhetoric. So the custom of the maiden speech has arisen, and last week one of the three ladies of the House, elected more than a year ago and present in Congress since last December, spoke forth in formal words for the first time?and her first words were a reproach. She was Mrs. Julius (Florence) Kahn, whose late husband was one of the military experts of the House...
...London, burrowing 100 feet under Lombard Street ("Wall Street of England"), sandhogs rooted out hairpins, brooches, combs, sandals, cosmetic bottles, dainty spoons, ranged along a wall which could be identified, by a Claudian coin, as that of a Roman "beauty shoppe" of about...
...What is the name of England's "Wall Street...