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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. About 70% of his maps, models and charts, testified Professor Kraemer, were modern relief maps, including some of New York City & vicinity which would be useful in regional planning. The Committee's counsel called a list of the other 30%. They included the Geographic Distribution of Ancient Greek Dialects, an Isothermic Map of the Mediterranean Region, a Profile of the Excavations at Kish, Early Bronze Age Intercourse, a Genealogy of the Julian-Claudian Line, the Roman Coinage of the Alexandrian Mint. One stopped the counsel: "The Geographical Distribution of the Chief Type of Fibulae...
...Ancient safety pins," said the professor...
There is little to dispute about many of the merits which are boasted for Latin. It gives one a valuable knowledge of ancient times; it opens the doorway to several fields such as Medievel History and the Romance Literatures; and it lends cultural and relaxing possibilities to the student in later life. On a similar basis, however, we think that History is more essential than Latin. Other groups believe just as sincerely that English 28, Physics C, and Fine Arts 1b are indispensable to an education. Is it fair that Latin should continue to receive preferential treatment from the College...
Pouncing on the ancient Carmelite monasteries and nunneries which dot the Rhineland and Westphalia, Nazi secret police last week burst in, searched abbots and mother superiors, monks and nuns. One venerable mother superior died of a stroke amid the raids. Next day the Realmgovernment, concealing all details, announced that batches of Carmelites were under arrest for evading Nazi currency control restrictions, smuggling out of the Fatherland some 2,500,000 marks...
...Kuei Chen, who was born in Shanghai, educated at the University of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins, and is now Eli Lilly & Co.'s director of pharmacological research, last week celebrated a new triumph. In the past he showed that the Chinese shrub Ma Huang was good, ancient medicine because the ephedrine which it contains relieves congestion in cold-ridden noses and stimulates poky hearts. He showed that toad venom was good, ancient medicine because it contains unusual concentrations of cholesterol, ergosterol, bufagin, bufotoxin and bufotenine...