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Over 4000 pennies were contributed by the Freshmen, other gifts including Canadian and Italian coins, blank checks, cough drops, cigarettes, a pair of dice, an empty cartridge, and one peppermint Life-Saver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Prove Ineffective Beggars as 1927 Contributes $159.13--Lamont Plans Strong Box for Two Million Marks | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...discovered last year, and only partly cleared, will be the main object of attack. Cuneiform tablets from Ur are arriving in Philadelphia. The U. of P. Museum goes halves with the British Museum on the finds. Dr. George B. Gordon and Sir Frederick Kenyon, the respective directors, shook dice to divide the booty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mummies, Fossils | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

...vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the University of Oregon, that the American aborigines, following the coast southward from Behring Straits, spread fanlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With the Diggers | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...Dice of the Gods. Mrs. Fiske is the latest actress to lend her talents to the dramatic literature of dope, which has filled nearly a dozen theatres this season. At least she is a cheerful dope fiend. Hers no life of nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...passing of such an amendment cannot be considered an absolute impossibility, but it is safe to say that if the Federation succeeds in this purpose it will be gambling -- and in a game in which the dice are loaded in their favor only for the first throw. For without the steadying influence of the conservative courts, Labor, no less than Capital, may be at the mercy of hysterical legislatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCRAP THE JUDICIAL | 6/18/1921 | See Source »

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