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...rare fortune yesterday, the upper reaches of the limpid stream resembled the Lido and Bailey's Beach more than a dignified and usually deserted river. Young Cambridge and a liberal assortment of canines disported themselves in the intriguing and unanalyzed waters, making whoopee all around Stillman and transforming Lief Ericson's monument into an apparatus for achieving that dark, rich skin which one doesn't love to have touched but which eventually, it is hoped, will develop into...
Proceeding up Mt. Aubura Street I shall then turn left on Boylston Street and continue along it to Lars Anderson Bridge. This bridge it has been said, was named in honor of a companion of the famous lief Erieson who sailed up the river now known as the Charles and built a house on its banks where he lived until driven away by the universites. Later investigation has, how ever, shown this story to be without truncation...
Though returning visitors to Soviet Russia differ widely among themselves as to present conditions in the largest nation (see above), a synthesis of their opinions may be blocked out in significant re- lief...
...these pictures really are of the ibex, scientists think that they will have proof of a pre-Columbian visit of Asiatics to the Pacific coast. Such a visit to the Pacific coast, comparable to the ancient landing of Lief Ericsen on the Atlantic coast, is considered by no means impossible, it has been pointed out. Other possible evidence of the presence of Asiatics on the western coast is the story of a complete Chinese junk, found buried in the gravel of a stream by early Californian settlers...
...neatly fenced off spot on the banks of the Charles near Stillman Infirmary where Lief the son of Eric built his Vineland cottage has long testified that when Christopher Columbus sailed into the setting sun he was not taking as big a chance as was formerly supposed. But further investigations, the results of which are still buried in scientific terminology, show that Lief himself was not the first and that dozens of explorers visited America before Columbus. Mr. Burton Kline, in the current World's Work lists five periods of exploration before Columbus came, and indicates that the wise Christopher...