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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German boy enters a gymnasium at eight or nine years of age and prepares there for his entrance into a university. At 18 or 19 this transition is made although in recent years there is a tendency to lower the age ratios and younger men are found starting their university careers...
...very pleased with what I have observed about Harvard University, having discovered an upstanding group of young men with well balanced interests. You have more athletics, moreover, than are found in German universities and I attribute a fine appearance to the lack of excessive drinking prevalent in European student bodies...
...twelve other bids and awarded the contract to Sinclair. It was a contract to extract oil from U. S. property on a royalty basis. In Fall's advertisement for bids nothing had been said about including in the lease an option to renew if the successful bidder found his bargain profitable. Yet into Sinclair's five-year contract was inserted such an option, to renew for another five years...
...awesome and holy is the small area circumferenced by the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written that...
Correspondents found the Colonel in a state of extreme despondency. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 (TIME, March 31, 1924) he jocularly remarked that "the English in Palestine are no Angels"; but last week he appeared to have revised this opinion for the worse. Brooding behind his Muscovite halo of whiskers. Colonel Kook muttered, "The end is near! How can we endure that they desecrate the Wall...