Word: linking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mysterious inscriptions found last summer on Mount Sinal by Professors Lake and Blake, proved to the unscholarly listener less interesting than the circumstances under which they were found, than the very fact that they were found and deciphered. To the study of languages is added an important link--a connection between obscure Phoenician characters and Egyptian writings. For a scholar the story which Professor Butin of Catholic University tells of their deciphering must be of absorbing interest, regardless of the trivialties of the actual meaning. To those who make no claim to being scholars, the interest lay in the first...
These inscriptions found on stone tablets which were hewn from the mountainside by the research-party, were deciphered by Professor Butin and others in Cairo this fall, and have proved fairly conclusive the existence of a definite link between Egyptian hieroghypics and the carliest Phoenician alphabet...
...circles of Washington. The British system of colonial government, which is the model of the present plan, allows the natives to elect their own Governor General, and would leave a high commissioner, with instructions to pilot the Philippine ship of state out of international storms, as the only American link with Island administration. The United States would then have what the opponents of the further progress of the plan call "responsibility without authority." And the fact that President Coolidge has yet to consult anyone connected with the Wood administration over the appointment of a new governor-general is regarded...
...would be that the historical event, from association with which the tree had glory thrust upon it, is the thing chiefly to be remembered. The old elm had the dignity of a genuine souvenir, which characteristic is not likely to be present in an effigy in concrete. As a link with the past an artificial tree might be novel but scarcely compelling. If the spot is to be commemorated for the event that happened there, it could be done more directly. The Washington Elm and the Delaware River possess about equally strong traditions in association with the life of Washington...
Professor Lake's talk will be based upon his recent scientific expedition to Palestine where studies were made on the famous undeciphered Srabit inscriptions, in an attempt to find the link between the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Phoenician alphabet...