Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spend some months studying and making complete photographic records of the wall paintings in the Tun Huang grottoes. News from the coast, however, arrived at about that time that the strikes and shootings in Shanghai had resulted in what amounted to a general and anti-foreign sentiment. This was felt even in the remote west and the Harvard party were not permitted to take up their residence at the Tun Huang oasis or to make the necessary photographs...
...held at the Union on Saturday, Rennic Smith, a member of the English Parliament, will speak on the recent labor strike. The luncheon, to be held at 1 o'clock, will be under the joint auspices of the Harvard Union and of the Liberal Club, it having been felt that due to the limited space of the Liberal Club building, the large audience which is expected might be better accommodated in the dining room of the Union...
...presence of President P. A. S. Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co. in London, where last week he was shrewdly consummating the $35,000,000 sale of half his fleet to British operators, caused concern to U. S. shippers. They felt that this sale- of the British-registered but U. S. operated and underwritten White Star line's 500,000 gross tonnage- meant further disintegration of the U.S. merchant marine. It may be that President Franklin will use the sales proceeds to wipe out an International Mercantile Marine indebtedness of almost like amount or, and more probably...
...their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan had not been able to soar over the 10,000-foot peaks this time. Wilkins, his right arm fractured, had sat grimly by in the cockpit while Eielson felt his way between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing wheel missed a snow bank by inches. At Barrow, clouds and a split propeller had frustrated three attempted return flights. Wilkins advised Major Lanphier...
...many years Professor of Geology at the University and Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, was always known for his interest in the personal and human problems of his students. This was undoubtedly one of the chief elements in his popularity among all those who knew him. It was felt by the sponsors of the new project, which is to lessen the difficulties of married graduates, that the plan should honor the name of a man whose interests were in similar problems of his students...