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Thermopylae in Reverse. 2,420 years ago, 1,400 Spartans, Thebans and Thespians, occupying a narrow mountain pass above the sea, were surprised from the rear by a large Persian detachment clambering around through the hills. Spartan King Leonidas and his men fought stubbornly for several hours, but all (except...
Radioactive phosphorus, which Professor Lawrence puts up in liquid form, can be swallowed, in minute quantities, without danger. At Memorial. Drs. Kenney, Helen Quincy Woodard and Leonidas Marinelli gave small quantities of the stuff to patients who were to be operated on-and to a few about to die. When...
First batch of 200 picked Jewish and non-Jewish families, with equipment and sufficient capital to get them started, will arrive in Santo Domingo this spring. They will be settled on a smiling plot of 26,685 acres near Sosua, in the north, which has already been improved to the...
Staid, stolid Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., posed in Manhattan, gun in hand, with noted Finnish Runners Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maid, to symbolize the start of a new drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting...
Fabulous is the story of U. S. iron ore, legendary its characters. In the early 'gos two brothers, Alfred and Leonidas Merritt, borrowed $420,000 from John D. Rockefeller to exploit Minnesota's famed Mesabi iron range, overextended themselves financing transportation facilities, building up a $29,400,000...