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...they intend to give ample play to their vitriolic pen is evidenced by the writers they have selected to aid them. Carl Van Doren, Theodore Dreiser, James Gibbons Hunneker, "a man who because of his official position cannot sign his name," and a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist)--all of them with some bone to pick with "nice people"--have contributed to the first number. Although the magazine will be a review, according to its editors "like every other monthly review the world have ever seen," it will be a review...
...Italian archeologists planned to secure government support to raise and salvage two large ancient Roman ships at the bottom of Lake Nemi, in the crater of an extinct volcano. The vessels have been examined by divers, and were probably luxurious houseboats used by the Caesars...
...Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter of the late Dr. Hugo Münsterberg...
...descendants of the class become extinct or if it becomes impracticable to carry out the original purposes for which the fund was given, it will be applied to the general purposes of the University, with the special stipulation by the Class of 1902, that in such case it be free from all conditions...
...When the Portuguese came to the islands, the Guanches began to fall off in numbers, until now the race is practically extinct, but even today traces of the Guanche blood may be seen in the modern inhabitants. An islander who has Guanche blood in his veins is always proud of this fact and boasts...