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...larger proportion of them attend and enjoy the moving pictures. They admit the possibility and applaud the actuality of a true interpretation of life therein, whether the subject be Babylon or West Point, whether it is filmed in California or Garden City. Hence a sense of reciprocity would admit that the world should see Harvard...
...Babylon, excavations have proceeded as never before. British and University of Pennsylvania diggers continued turning up the wonders of Ur of the Chaldees. Their finding of the great ziggurat or tower, the temple of the moon god and the temple of Nin-Gal, wife of the moon god, was reported in TIME, March...
...enormous steel towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms, with towns upon them, airdromes, sunshine and the fresh winds of heaven. The platforms are erected over forests, rivers, lakes, like the stilted cities of Borneo and Siam, or the fabulous hanging gardens of Babylon. With transport facilities developing as they are, said Kiesler, "distance no longer exists. . . . We can live where we like...
...William A. Sunday, Presbyterian evangelist, returned to Manhattan, lair of Liberals, for the first time since the War year when he came to clean up the "modern Babylon." Said...
...West Babylon, N. Y., experimenters announced the development of a new illuminating gas. The raw material used: crude oil or refinery residuum. The product: a hydrogen and carbon combination containing no carbon monoxide because manufactured at low temperatures. The product's qualities : non-asphyxiating because void of carbon monoxide ; content of 1,600 British thermal (heat) units as against 525 to 585 units in most illuminating gases. From 7 gal. of refinery residuum are produced 1,000 cu. ft. of the new gas and a by-product of 1½ gal. of gasoline high in ethylene content...