Word: intact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crumbled in his hand into a little flutter of yellowish flakes. Only 30 pages could be gathered again. These, a gay jumble of antique anecdotes, had been joined and backed with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica had been preserved intact, as had letters from Boswell to his wife, to his sons, to William Pitt, to William Temple, to Edmund Burke, to Edmund Malone, to Isabella de Zuylen ("Zelide"), to Samuel Johnson...
...four infield posts might be taken care of by W. W. Lord '28, R. C. Sullivan '28, G. E. Donaghy '29, and J. P. Chase '28. Captain H. W. Burns '28 and W. B. Jones '28 are back to fill two outfield berths, and the pitching staff is almost intact, with J. N. Barbee '28, F. B. Cutts '28, Willard Howard '28, and E. R. Ketchum '29 ready to step on the mound...
...Reisner suspected it was the tomb of Queen Hetep-Heres, mother of Cheops, and many months of meticulous examination and removal of priceless debris proved him right. It was the first intact tomb ever found of a person of the Fourth Dynasty...
Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...
...Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan went begging for a buyer at $1. Twelve years ago the staircase cost $150,000. Today it could hardly be duplicated for twice that sum. But because modern homes want no white marble staircases, because the labor of removing this one intact would cost thousands of dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided to pound the marble staircase to pieces and dump the blocks into Long Island swamps. Two Tudor ceilings...