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...feet long and weighs 280 pounds", Lutz continued, "and is 25 inches wide and 10 1-2 inches deep. The frame is made of white pine, and all parts are mailed and not glued, as popular superstition would have it. The cover is made of solid pieces of Spanish cedar, and is also only one-eighth of an inch thick, and is mailed on, not glued. The deck is covered with waterproof silk...
...babies holding fish, designed by orthodox sculptors. Another statue went on view there last week. It was a white Carrara marble figure of a nude young woman, seated and gazing reflectively at her left foot. In front of the figure was a black marble reflecting pool, behind it cedar trees and potted plants. Called Reverie, it attracted great attention not only because it was pleasant to the eye but also because its creator, a grandmother, is the wife of Albert Henry Wiggin whose bank (Chase) vies with National City for title of "world's biggest...
...received a telegram from the mayor of Pineville to the effect that there were no mines near his town, that Pineville did not need Mr. Frank's food and that no mass meetings would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through the cedar-clothed hills and up past Cumberland Gap, where Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee meet, pushed Mr. Frank and his band. Sheriff Blair rubbed his palms, announced that Cell 13 of the Harlan County jail was happily empty, and that he would "not hesitate to fill it with New York writers...
...over a range of 5,000 years. By this time man had learned to write in cuneiforms, and in cuneiform tablets at Alishar Dr. Breasted brought to light the last remnants of Hittite speech. Meanwhile the Egyptians were going forward, had learned to write on the sides of their cedar coffins. Texts of these writings which the Institute has been translating for nine years, reveal, says Dr. Breasted, "the dawn of conscience." In Sakkara man was learning to paint pictures, facsimiles of which Dr. Breasted considers good enough to hang in his new office. Architecture flourished in Thebes; Dr. Breasted...
...division of the army. Sheridan had two big jobs: policing the Shenandoah Valley and beating Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart. He cleared the Valley and on a raid behind Lee's lines Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern. Many a schoolboy knows of the Battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, supposedly riding hard from Winchester, "20 miles away," rallied his men and turned a rout into victory. Sheridan's famed gallop, says Author Hergesheimer, has been grossly exaggerated: actually he went very slowly, stopping to listen, probably walked his horse a good part...