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...Schmidt '37, (scratch); second, J. C. Dounelly '39, (4 yds.). Time--11 2-5 sees. Fourth heat--Won by R. S. Brookings 1L., (4 yds.); second, T. H. Calhoun '39, (5 yds.). Time--12 sees. Fifth heat--Won by D. P. Coffin '38, (5 yds.), second, F. Garrison '37, (6 yds.). Time--12 sees
These and other resounding words were inscribed in cuneiform characters on seven stone tablets, each two feet square, some 2,420 years ago. Lately diggers of University of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute unearthed them at Persepolis, not in the palace but in the ruins of an army garrison where they had been stored. Three of the inscriptions contain matter new to scholars...
...story of 1836 was the revolt of Texas against Mexico. Tale of the Alamo made tragic news in the U. S. in early March. "The battle was desperate until daylight," reported the New Orleans True American, "when only seven men belonging to the Texan garrison were found alive, who cried for quarter, but were told that there was none for them. They then continued fighting until the whole were butchered. . . . We regret to say that Colonel David Crockett was among the number slain...
...report have ferreted out and condemned these rampant evils, shows that there exists in this state, at least, a strong public determination to clean up a particularly harmful form of graft. Legislators will have to give ear to this growing voice of discontent, for, like William Lloyd Garrison, "it will be heard...
...headquarters of Japan's General Staff, with its bombproof and gas-proof centre, its direct wires to every military garrison in the Empire, has never been considered exactly unguarded or defenseless. Yet by dawn it, too, had quietly filled up with mustards...