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...tombs which Colonel Kozlov discovered were made of wood and consisted in a typical instance of one chamber, measuring about seven by ten yards, placed inside another so as to leave a rather large corridor around the outside. Within the inmost chamber, a heavy, lacquered and decorated coffin lay upon a thick woolen carpet. In the second chamber were found the valuable textiles and other objects. No golden or silver pieces were found in any of the tombs due to the fact that they had already been broken into by robbers at a much earlier date. Human remains were also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARNER AND PELLIOT CONTRIBUTE MUCH VALUABLE WORK TO CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY | 4/29/1926 | See Source »

...their inmost minds the Americans expected the British to oppose a desperate resistance and stick to their 21/2% proposal. To their renewed astonishment, the British did not. They rather quickly assented to 3 1/2%. And that is how today the rate of 2 1/2% has become a sort of sacred rate to be" imposed on all foreign debtors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caillaux's Commission | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...illimitable bosom of the Pacific, the Pacific groundswell, ponderous granite boulders, vast shore plains, the unthinkable bottom boundary of the oceans. He hurls his images or bites them out; he rumbles, casts spells, croons, soothes, claps out thunder, flashes naked lightning, dreams serene or troubled beauty?and with his inmost eye, contemplates the closed, unchangeable cycles of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Headlands | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair's rabidness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAPER POLICIES | 3/17/1925 | See Source »

...crawled down toward the mouth, which opens almost in the center of the crater, and looked in. The sides are very steep and inaccessible. The only way to penetrate into the inmost secrets of the volcano would be to come with companions and be let down by ropes? a fascinating adventure, which I hope to undertake if I live and if the god of mountains protects me. From invisible depths, columns of irritating gases made me cough badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Empedocles? | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

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