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...eleventh hour, another candidate appeared in the person of Lord Cave, the Lord High Chancellor of the Realm. Still, this did not appear to diminish Lord Oxford's chances of election. By comparison he dwarfed Lord Cave intellectually and from the point of view of achievement. But Oxford is traditionally the home of lost causes and the treasury of Conservative thought. It was, therefore, not surprising that Lord Cave, a Conservative, was preferred as Chancellor to Lord Oxford, a Liberal, by 987 votes...
...midnight, in the middle of a baseball lot on the outskirts of Manhattan, stood a squat man in a blue suit. He lifted up his face toward the dark cave of a stadium risen out of a cigaret smoke, peopled with 40,000 ghouls. Enormous lights concentrated their white, sterile fire upon his stubby head. On each side of him, in the opposite corners of a roped square, sat a boxer. On his right was a young German, whose heavy, amazed face protruded from the folds of a bathrobe that concealed a torso bulging with incredible dorsal muscles, a pair...
...development has been rapid and recent compared to the millions of years it has taken other animals to advance. He lived mostly in forests, and fossils of forest life are always few. Human fossils have been found only in river beds (from drowning-infrequent), and in caves. Seven early types have been discovered: ¶Pithecanthropus erectus* A skull cap, thigh bone and some teeth were found in Java. They are probably not less than 500,000 years old. Study indicates that the creature walked partially erect, had a brain volume about half way between man and the gorilla. The skull...
...China, the way leads to Pekin, Nankau Pass, the Old Wall of China, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. Besides wild fowl shooting, there will also be opportunity to bag cave tigers. The upper end of the Malay peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will...
Lord Chancellor Viscount Cave, replying for the Government, said that a Cabinet committee is to examine the matter with a view to introducing reform legislation, but said that nothing could be done before next year...