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...primitive draws the image of a gazelle to amuse himself, it is a picture; but if a hunter makes such a picture to inform the next comer that the hunting is good, it is a message. Cuneiform writing ("cuneiform" means wedge-shaped) is a direct descendant of picture-writing, in which the symbols are so formalized and simplified that they are unrecognizable as representations of real objects. When symbols were assigned for phonetic syllables, the representation of abstract ideas became possible. The Babylonians realized that they could develop an al-phabet-that is, a set of symbols each of which...
Last week another young racehorse which racegoers thought destined to be great was led to the Saratoga barrier for another Sanford Memorial. This comer was Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson's Thingumabob, a two-year-old. He had run away with his two previous starts this season, had become the highest juvenile money-earner of the year ($31,810) by winning the rich Arlington Futurity. For the Sanford he was such a favorite that his odds, 1-to-4, were the shortest quoted all season at Saratoga...
...delighted by a private settlement in which the pomps of diplomacy were not involved. Mr. Sayre talked it over with Ambassador Saito at the Japanese Embassy. Dr. Murchison proceeded to organize a committee. At high noon the day before Christmas, President Murchison, Manufacturers Harry Bailey of New York, Donald Comer of Alabama, Casson Callaway of Georgia and Cotton's Editor Bob Philip sailed from San Francisco for Japan...
...Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls). There is good-hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl friend, a late comer, is Teddy Stern (Katherine Locke). Teddy, an unsure, shy little typist with a great desire for gentility, is glad to get away from home for the first time, glad to escape her mother's nagging about the way Sam Rappaport jilted her after they had been going steady...
Centering the third line will be Joe Patrick, sophomore and a new-comer to Crimson hockey, who is a tricky, but not too fast, skater. The veteran John Callaway will hold down the left wing position while Freddie deRahm, another Sophomore, will team with him from the right...