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...Reisner was loathe to believe that the scarred remnant of a sarcophagus which was found and left in the main mortuary chamber of the Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...Princeton, Colebrook was easily the outstanding performer, and he was besides, the most valuable man on the ice. Time and again he proved to be the boy at the dyke, and of the 32 shots that rattled off his pads, skates and stick, many might well have counted without discredit to his goaltending ability. Next to him, Davis was the most active Tiger, and Hallock and Captain Wilkinson also played consistently, the latter opening the scoring, while Hallock caged the other two of Princeton's three tallies...
...Since the war," continued Mr. Hibben, "there has been a steadily increasing disillusionment in the parliamentary or democratic type of government. In the countries of Southern Europe and particularly in Italy, it has been discredited and made ridiculous. But if Mussolinidies, or, what is more likely, one of his dissatisfied compatriots disposes of him by the simple expedient of murder, what comes next? There are only two kinds of self renewing governments that we know of today,--the parliamentary and the "dictatorship by the proletariat" type in effect in Russia and so-termed by its members. The first...
...which after five years of trouble they would gladly return to the Russians. The Romanians have resorted to a depouplation of the territory which they held by the simple means of murder. Russia has been handicapped in the international competition of diplomacy. Every respect able country has tried to discredit the Revolution and yet Russia has managed to carry has experiment to a successful stair...
...attention has been drawn to several most serious errors which appear in your issue of Jan. 4, pp. 23 and 24. These are of such a nature as to cast most serious discredit upon the Order of the Star in the East, Dr. Annie Besant, Mr. Krishnamurti and myself...