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...real object of my visit was to study and try to catalogue the sculpture of the Eighth century. This is chiefly centered around Nara, and so, using this town as headquarters, I managed to visit and inspect most of the temples and monasteries in the vincinity. I spent a great deal of time in the monastery of Horyuji. This is the oldest standing wooden building in the world. It was built in the Seventh century, and is a veritable treasure house for the most interesting and priceless of relics...
...Brooklyn last week, one Harry Kaufmann entered a subway train, sat quietly for a while, began to inspect a Mrs. Anna Prisco directly opposite him. Scorning the naked eye, he swept her with enormous binoculars, peered at her. Mrs. Prisco expressed annoyance. Peerer Kaufmann slapped her. Soon a chivalrous crowd attacked Mr. Kaufmann. Policemen saved him from massacre, jailed...
...training camp was favored with a visit of the Notre Dame baseball squad today. The South Bend diamond stars, fresh from their massacre of the Crimson in Cambridge, were in New London to play the Knights of Columbus team, and after their game journeyed here to inspect the crew quarters. They were shown around the grounds and were taken out in one of the launches to watch the three mile practice of the Harvard crews...
...Witness. Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands. She chatted with convicts, and followed the trails so many of them have hacked in vain through the jungle. Everything she saw was evidence of the demoded prison conditions that a twentieth century government tolerates...
...aware that Congressmen drink, often to excess and not infrequently during legislative hours, than Senator Caraway of Arkansas. His practice of wandering moodily all over the Senate chamber while his colleagues are sitting brings Senator Caraway close to more colleagues on both sides of the aisle than he could inspect if he sat like them at a desk. Yet none knew better than Senator Caraway the difficulty for the News of escaping libel damages if it became explicit. Therefore, and perhaps because he thought his wandering habits had been hinted at by the News-for he is a militant Prohibitionist...