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This railway starts at sea level (port of Callao) and crosses the Andes reaching an elevation, near the station of Ticlio, of 15,665 feet. On a branch from this station of Ticlio to a mining camp (Moroco-cha), it scales even higher, or 15,865 feet above the sea. And this is all standard-gauge railroad with no rack and pinion. Now where is that puny little point in Colorado? . . . A. L. CONWELL...
...picked and pried it loose, a bone five feet long, weighing 55 pounds, encrusted with marine fossils. What was it? wondered gaping natives. The femur (thigh bone), said Pomona professors, of a giant elephant that roamed California 20,000 years ago when the rim of the Pacific lay much higher inland...
...found many traces of an extinct culture higher than the present Eskimo culture; became certain that Eskimos and Red Indians are kindred stocks. In May, Ethnologist Herbert W. Krieger of the Smithsonian Institution went to the Yukon to elaborate Dr. Hrdlicka's preliminary diggings. Before leaving, Mr. Krieger gave his opinion of the runic inscriptions on a boulder near Spokane, Wash., which some had held recounted a battle there between Indians and Norsemen in 1010 A. D. (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Krieger thought the "runes" were Indian ideographs, recording migrations up the Columbia River for food...
...informal course in things bookish; and coming out for frankness about professionalism in college athletics. He made Rollins College sound like a sensible little institution with no frills or fads about it. Nothing was far ther from the boom spirit of Florida and the spirit of gigantism in higher learning than this college at which some 240 responsible students were gathered around a retired liberal editor to improve themselves and society...
...Even irreproachable folk of the British middling classes have a trick of referring the upper classes, the higher clergy or the police as "them...