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Winter in the Caucasus is severe, almost Arctic. The snow covers the ground to a depth of ten feet or more while for the thermometer to register 25 degrees below zero is not the exception but the rule. Under these conditions the refugees of the Near East can live only if, through the charity of peoples more fortunate than they, they obtain clothing to protect them from the elements...
...Spinden and I are leading through Eastern Yucatan will diligently seek dates to piece out the dim record of those vanished builders. We cannot hope to find inscriptions before the first definite date in the history of the New World which is August 6, 613 B.C. This is historical zero, discovered in calculations, but the first dated monument comes a full five centuries later. But we should be almost equally pleased to throw light on the abrupt downfall of this lost people. For human interest, after all, is the fundamental appeal in this riddle, and one cannot stop wondering what...
...rubbed his nose, wondering if it was frozen. To the west, 110 miles away across the snow-covered country, he could clearly see the houses of Indianapolis; he could see Cincinnati 50 miles to the south, and Columbus 65 miles northeast. The temperature about him was 79 degrees below zero. He was Lieutenant John A. Macready, flying an XCO-5 in an attempt to break the world's altitude record, held by M. Callise of France. The seven miles that separated him from Dayton were miles of clear and frigid...
...cried to "Mr. Zero." "This mission has been in existence for 20 years and we don't need you to tell us how to run it. Get out, or I'll call the police...
...reporters "Mr. Zero" cried: "That mission kicks the poor bums out at 5 a. m. even on Sunday, when there's no chance to get work. . . . People ask me what my game is. I have no game. I merely try to do good...