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...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...
...Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.); but whether "Boxer"-trouble was brewing again he could not be certain. From Washington, President Calvin Coolidge ordered last week that no chances be taken, that the U. S. Legation and all U. S. citizens be removed to the port of Tientsin from inland Peking, should that city be seriously menaced. To keep the way of escape open, to carry out the evacuation if necessary: these were the tasks faced last week by "Old Gimlet Eye Butler...
That volcano of unrest in European politics, the Mediterranean district, has recently displayed unmistakable signs of increasing activity. To the three great Western countries, England, France, and Italy, who hold large stakes in the lands surrounding this inland sea, have been added the two Balkan states, Roumania and Jugo Slavia, who emerged into the Class B Power class after the World War and to a certain extent replaced in the politics of the Near East dismembered Austria and red Russia...
Chicagoans throbbed with confidence and gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
Dispatched by the Museum on an anthropological expedition, Putnam traveled inland from Merauke, a Dutch village on the coast with only 17 white inhabitants, going from village to village up the rivers in native canoesor in the barks of Chinese bird of paradise hunters. Overland travel was impossible, due to the non-existence of roads in the sections traversed...