Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Last week there was news from the Penn excavations 90 miles from Rome, news as important to international goodwill as to archeology. "We have unearthed," said Penn's scholarly Dr. Jotham Johnson, "a vast pre-Roman city four times larger than Pompei. . . . We have unearthed an ancient Greek market place unique in the world. Such, a find does not exist, so far as we know, even in Greece itself. . . . Some of the city walls must be of the Fifth Century before Christ. . . . There is a temple of the period of Augustus [contemporary with Christ] and there...
...direction of Von Sternberg is as usual obvious because of its elusiveness. His China is unbelievably like the China we had always hoped to see; and once we have watched the Express crawl between the overhanging rafters of an ancient city, chasing foolish chickens before, it is difficult to accept a more prosaic film. To have seen Shanghai Lily looking like a caged imperial tiger as her black gown swirls about her is to have seen a figure that spoils one for lesser women...
...Strong will return to Guatemals in the course of a month to join Dr. G. C. Shattuck '01 and Dr. J. L. Bremer '96 who are now conducting an investigation for the Carnegie Institute as to why the ancient Maya tribe is at present dying...
Democratic ideas on reorganization were wholly focused on a bill by Representative Byrns to consolidate the Army and Navy into one Department of National Defense. To this ancient and much discussed proposal President Hoover is strongly opposed. Challenged Mr. Byrns: "My bill will save $100,000,000 annually in expenditures and will not interfere with the efficiency of the fighting forces. If the President really wants economy, he can save vastly more by passage of my bill than through any other action...
...ancient Manhattan department store, James A. Hearn & Son, founded in 1827, changed hands last week. Hearn's used to be on Canal Street, has been on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue since 1879. Prices low, aisles crowded, it retains the air of an old fashioned department store...