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...amazing custom of sati-burial, so revolting to moderns, according to which the members of the king's household killed themselves or were killed when he died, and were actually buried in the same tomb, prevailed at Meroe from the second century B. C. onwards, says Dr. Reisner...
This year the University will not practice, as has been the custom heretofore at the Oakley Country Club. The management is trying to secure playing privileges at some other local country club whose course is more suited for team practice but just which one will be selected has not been decided upon...
...percentage of impurities in virtually all new mined coal going to market, charges the American, runs from 25 to 40%. The normal rate of impurities allowed by decent trade custom and considered unavoidable when coal is honestly prepared for market is from 2 to 4% in the large domestic sizes up to 10% in the steam sizes...
...been the custom for other textile centers to follow the lead of the American Woolen Company in adjusting wage scales, so that a gen- eral rise in wages is predicted for the entire New England district...
Finland, paying her debts. [Together with Great Britain and Czechoslovakia, she may make this custom fashionable once more...