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...exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar as protector of their church. In return the Tsar gave the monastery $3,500, the abbot and other dignitaries decorations. Last week this trash basket manuscript, now the famed Codex Sinaiticus, was bought by the British Museum for $511,250 (?100,000) from the Soviet Government. Under secrecy and heavy guard, it was moved from Moscow to London...
...starting block for the 200-yard freestyle event, will be Edward C. Devereaux '34, and Abbot W. Sherwood '35, both of whom saw plenty of service last year. Devereaux, who has swum over this distance in nearly every meet in the last two years, will also be on hand when the quarter-mile starts, but it is likely that Ulan will use John L. Ward '34, and Richard G. Dorr '36 instead, unless the Maine swimmers show unexpected strength, and pile up a larger score than the dope would imply...
...single find but to the accumulated evidence of many finds. In several places in the West and Southwest, he pointed out, human remains and crude implements had been found in association with certain species of ground sloths, musk oxen, elephants, all long extinct. Weather, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, slow-spoken, thin-faced secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed sun observer, flatly affirmed before the Academicians that weather repeats itself in cycles of 23 years. All the assembled scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer theory but was solidly documented by weather records for months...
...flaw which Dr. Abbot regretted was an occasional unexpected lag in expected variations, ascribed to irregularity in sunspot development. With long-range weather forecasting as his great goal, he is now preparing temperature & precipitation predictions "for numerous stations in all parts of the world for many years in advance...
...leading man in the sprint division and if he maintains his pace of last year should have no trouble in holding down his position this season. In the century free-style, however, the situation is much more complicated and four men are in the field. John L. Ward '34, Abbot W. Sherwood, Jr. '35, Stanley M. Wyman '35, George Wightman '34 and Herbert M. Howe '34 are fighting for the top honors in the 100-yard free-style class. Howe is also in the running for the sprint event...