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...head to the north. Most of the mummy and its wrappings had disintegrated, but the head was well preserved. With the skeleton were bracelets, anklets, two necklaces of gold and a copper girdle, a gold headdress with streamers of copper and gold. Atop the sarcophagus was an ala baster headrest, shaped like a crescent moon on a pedestal (see cut). Professor Hassan found four sculptured gold fingers, searched for six more gold fingers and ten gold toes. Director John A. Wilson of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute called Chephren's daughter, "one of the best finds in recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Freshman hockey team defeated Milton Academy in a practice game at the Boston Garden yesterday afternoon, 3 to 1. Captain F. H. Bacon '35 and M. L. Pruyn '35 started for the 1935 stickmen, Pruyn making two of the three Crimson goals. The summary: HARVARD MILTON Bacon, Saltonstall, Baster, Bearstman. l.f. r.f., Robbins, Quinby, Leatherbee Hellis, Gleason, Robbins, Cart, r. f. l. f., Bedford, Weekes, Cunningham Pruyn, Holmes, c. c, Talber, Roberts, G., Roberts, J. Waffs, Hellins, Mendelson, l. d. l.d., Froster, Brown, Dow, r.d. l.d., Bellows, Lovering Garfield, Reece, r. s., Ganneff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SEXTET DEFEATS MILTON ACADEMY TEAM 3-1 | 2/10/1932 | See Source »

...stables, "Bellhaven Behoover." A "staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn."* Son of Triple Champion Bellhaven Braveheart and Multiple Champion Bellhaven Blossom time, grandson of Bellhaven Starboat Strongheart ("greatest collie of all time"), young Bellhaven Behoover was valued at $1,000. But Mrs. Ilch said that, for Mrs. Hoover, "nothing was too good." Her idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Materials of American Diplomatic History," Dr. J. P. Baster, Semitic Museum 2, History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

...members have been appointed from the Law School. J. H. Douglas 31, from the Business School, Shaw Livermore 20 B: from the School of Architecture S. P. Moorehead 28 A, from the School of Landscape Architecture B. D. Williams3.S.1.A, from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. J. P. Baster 2d.2Q; from the Graduate School of Education E. R. Collier 3G. Ed of Cambridge; from the Theological School R.K. Starker; from the Medical School, C. P. Rhoids 4M.; and from the Dental School N. G. Newman Jr. 3D of Dorchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASSEMBLED ALUMNI WILL HONOR ELIOT ON 90TH BIRTHDAY | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

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