Word: intact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics: Since 1911, 86 Ministers have held office. Of these, five were killed, 64 imprisoned, eight exiled. Only nine lasted through their terms of office with their lives and liberties intact...
...Bible, of which 41 are known to be in existence, has 641 pages. (This was the first issue of the Bible printed with movable type, 1450, 1455.) Gabriel Wells, a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, bookdealer, recently sold piecemeal an imperfect copy of 593 pages. Where whole books or chapters were intact, they were sold as units. The splitting up of the book makes it possible for many museums and libraries to have pages of this famous Bible, where it would be impossible to secure whole copies. Those which have benefited under this scheme are: Toledo Museum of Art, Massachusetts Institute...
Europe. The recent excavations at Pompeii, under Prof. Vittorio Spinazzola, have made greater progress than all previous ones. To date, 530 meters of street have been uncovered by modern methods, which preserve the architecture intact. Old-fashioned excavation was carelessly done by workmen, digging into buildings from below and bringing valuable material down in ruins. Today ashes and rubbish are removed from above, walls and roofs are strengthened and supported, and all details are preserved, including the brilliant original colors of the frescoes...
...clock on Soldiers Field. With its three opening games successfully behind it, and further steadied by its four contests on the Southern trip, the nine that will face the Maine combination this afternoon, will do so with the odds well in its favor. Coach Slattery will start team A intact with either K. N. Hill or Young on the mound...
...Katz asserts that in at least half of all cases of blindness, including the congenitally blind, the light perception nerves are intact, and that his operation will make it possible for all such to see. He is also working on an instrument called an " optophone " by which light will be transformed into sound, for the benefit of the blind in whom the light nerves are dead. The professor is a director of a hospital for 300 patients, supported by the Soviet government, but is handicapped by lack of funds, equipment and personnel. His work is done in poverty and hardship...