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Stimulated to historical introspection by the curiosity of nations that are, comparatively, mere children, Egypt is jealously digging herself up these days, under European leadership. Last week, led by Digger Cecil Firth, archaeologists of the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian government climbed up a stairway of 100 steps out of the rocky bowels of their land...
...bonny sun shone, a gentle breeze blew, the Firth of Forth sparkled bright as hard by it they played for the British amateur-golf championship down the dour long fairways of Muirfield (near Edinburgh...
...fourth or firth-rate author entered a certain railroad car that loaded up one day last week in the Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, he would have thought that, verily, he had strayed into heaven. It was a car completely filled with potent publishers-about 30 of them...
This decision was reached after cable consultations with Mr. Lacau, the Director General of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, with Mr. Alan Rowe, Acting Director of the Expedition, and with Mr. C. M. Firth, director of the Egyptian Government excavations at Saqqarah...
...Dover to Calais or vice versa-and a swimmer's course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...