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From the tomb of Tut-ank-Amen and countless other mines of Egyptian treasure there come almost daily, priceless additions to the collections of the pitifullv inadequate and overcrowded museum at Cairo. For three months the Egyptian Cabinet has been trying to decide whether to accept $10,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr. wherewith to build and endow forever a museum adequate beyond all dreams, a beautiful and safe repository, equipped to preserve these treasures by every means known to science (TIME, March 1, et ante...
...which let us chant an antiphonal amen. And continue. For continue we must, now that Dreiser has given us the big rhythm. But perhaps we are hitting our man too many times on the same blood-clot. Nevertheless we remember that there have been in years a gone double-decker novels whose power increased with their size. Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil" was such a one; it captured a dinky little Nobel Prize or something of the sort. Then there was Fielding's "Tom Jones"--pretty good for an old-timer, what...
...Amen, Amen...
...life, eight of matrimony, three or four of sovereignty. In those days the throne of the Pharaohs was inherited by sons-in-law. Thus Saa-nekht, having married one daughter of Pharaoh Khu-n-Aten, succeeded his father-in-law, died, was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Tutankh-Amen, who had meanwhile married Khu-n-Aten's third daughter, Amkh-nes-pa-Aten...
...Watermelon," "Welencei Boldosag," "Amen," "A peacock feather...