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Traces of the old times still survive. At the old Persian-founded city of Derbent, on the Caspian, stands an ancient citadel, its walls and wooden, iron-framed gates forming a barrier between the mountains and the sea. The famed Georgian Military Highway, from the North Caucasus to Georgia, skirts the site of the historic ironbound Daryal gates, which in ancient days closed the Daryal Gorge. Many a solitary cliffside mountain village still has its ancient watchtowers, frowning down on all approaches...
Artistically, the House boats two trim Georgian courts lorded over by the spiring bell tower. Its panelled library contains exceptional economics and poetry collections and an undisputed record library...
...only addition to the Yard in the last decade, the new library fulfills the University's need for a suitable location for its treasure items. The six-story Georgian building in the east corner of the Yard has been widely acclaimed as the nearest perfect existing structure for its purpose, even surpassing the National Archives in Washington...
...Aide-de-Camp Blumenfeld was the only resentful Georgian who wrote complaining about TIME'S account of his Governor's accident...
...Judge Shinn did grant recovery on some items. He found that in 1935, when Consolidated bought four more Hearst papers (Baltimore News-Post and American, San Antonio Light, Atlanta Georgian), the $8,297,595 purchase price was too high by $2,832,941. Consolidated is entitled to recover this sum plus interest. He also ruled that Consolidated should recover some of the dividends it paid to other Hearst companies on stock which had not been paid for in cash, as well as interest on some complex inter-company loans. Best estimate of the total amount of the verdict (which...