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...ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how much longer. Ceremonially its great padlocks were removed, its lid thrown back, its twelve inner compartments, one for each month, revealed. In each compartment were labeled bags of coin, the heaviest freight which the old pyx had ever borne: 92,492 pieces of small change, samples of the 184,843,732 coins† minted at Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver...
...crews with which he has been associated have been the best in the country during the past few years, Bolles does not think it's a matter of weight. "California has had some big crews," he agrees, "but year in and year out Cornell and Syracuse will be the heaviest. I think good crews just run in cycles. We have happened to have some good material out at Washington. Navy had its run, you remember, and so did Cornell. All you have to have is two lean Freshman years and then you're in for a tough time...
...stream-might not do the trick. A large part of the rain that causes floods falls in the main valleys. The U. S. Weather Bureau last week published a map showing the distribution of rainfall during the first 25 days of January, the water of the present flood. The heaviest portion, from 16 in. to over 20 in., fell close to the main Ohio and Mississippi valleys from a point below Cincinnati to a point in upper Arkansas. The distribution in 1927 was similar except that it was still lower down the main streams. As General Jadwin said: "A flood...
...Madrid, whether or not the Whites had taken Jan. 15 as their deadline for victory, the heaviest fighting of the entire civil war was going great guns this week, with German air bombs and projectiles pounding the $4,000,000 U. S.-owned Telephone Building into increasing uselessness. At latest reports U. S. Telephone Tycoon Colonel Sosthenes Behn was still with his battered building, although the U. S. and British embassies had long since been officially evacuated, and last week were scarred by air bomb splinters. Splinters lodged in the heads of a left-behind British military attache...
With much ostentation, the Young Marshal was taken to court by a military escort which behaved as though guarding his life rather than attempting to prevent his escape, and in the screwiest trial yet staged outside Soviet Russia he loudly took entire blame for everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights...