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Your brilliancy of writing sometimes makes the meaning a trifle cryptic, but she enjoys discovering it in her own fashion and finds no objection to it on the score of its not being obvious. She expects to remain a constant reader and admirer as in the past...
...reputation of Friar Roger Bacon (1214-1294) as a scientist was burnished lately when University of Pennsylvania chemists obtained salts of copper by one of his cryptic formulae (TiME, Dec. 13). But last week Friar...
...Roger Bacon's cryptic scripts, announced finally translated last week, describe the "elixir"(see SCIENCE...
...writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey's eastern end. This threw light on certain cryptic manuscripts. Architect Bond dug, gave up, consulted the ghost again, received fresh instructions, dug again and found King Edgar's masonry...
Cliches, bromides! Of course the obvious, the usual, the true are all that Yet a solid South votes Democratic, remembering days when "The Birth of a Nation" was in the cradle of the deep beyond, and the negro question remains as cryptic, unsounded as the riddles of the sages. A farm group in the west knock in vain at the doors of public intelligence to find they beat as against wind. The great issues lie on the shelves, gathering dust, while politicians parade pretty toys for the inveterate voters. They know that the intellectuals will be off deciding whether...