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...Montana was bragging about the antiquity of his razor, a 146-year-old English blade, Dr. Allan Chester Johnson, Princeton Latinist, announced that he was trimming his beard with a stone razor he found in 1910 under the bathroom window of the palace of King Minos of Crete, where it was first used circa 2500 B.C. Said Dr. Johnson: "It has a marvelous edge...
Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos, 72, "Father of the Greek Republic," who was born on what was the Turkish island of Crete, singlehanded doubled the area of modern Greece, tripled its population, dethroned and throned its Kings, led its only winning wars and won for it a prestige based, not on its actual importance, but on the respect his character had won at the council tables of Europe. As last week opened he was in exile in Paris, beloved of half the Greeks, hated by the other half. Grippe settled in his lungs. His old heart was tired. It stopped. The most...
Archaeological excavations in Egypt, the Near East, and Crete, will be the subjects for a series of illustrated public lectures to be given in Room One of the Semitic Museum, Divinity Avenue on Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 4 o'clock until Friday, March...
...illustrated public lecture on the ancient palace of Knossos in Crete will be given by Dean George H. Chase, professor of Archaeology and Curator of Classical Antiquities, this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Semitic Museum, Divinity Avenue, Cambridge...
This is the first of a series of six illustrated public lectures dealing with archaeological excavations in Egypt, the Near East, and Crete, which are to be given in the Semitic Museum. The other lectures, all at 4 o'clock...