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Rockefeller Abroad. At Oxford University, England, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Cave, last week opened a new school of biochemistry. Rockefeller money provided $175,000 toward the cost of the building and $100,000 for its maintenance. The university contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education Notes, Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Such was one eyewitness' description of what happened one noon last week when a low-pressure area formed in the sultry atmosphere over eastern Missouri, creating a Cave of the Winds, and loosing upon a residential section of St. Louis its worst tornado since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: St. Louis Tornado | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...diocese on his cream-colored mule, Bishop Latour was respectfully studious of its folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave, the Bishop honored the inscrutable and did not ask if the vibrant mystery of the place was, besides a buried river, some ceremonial monster, an infant-devouring serpent as legend said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Nick-a-Jack Cave, near Shellmound, Tenn., is a long black involved passage, coiled, like an intestine, under a pot-bellied mountain. Into it last week crawled one Lawrence S. Ashley, geologist, cave-guide. Clambering up the entrance to a secret tunnel which he had discovered, Explorer Ashley heard a great echoing roar as a landslide filled his return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Digger | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Kenya Colony, Digger L. S. Leakey reported finding the skeleton of a six-foot cave man of non-negroid characteristics, surrounded by mesolithic flints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diggers | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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