Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left the town deserted now, but its huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh, a magnificent bronze mirror, and some very good fragments of fresco-work...
...sure, however," he added, "we did have a lot of thrills of the kind you mean. The provinces of Honan, Chensi and Chansi are infested with rascally bandits, discharged soldiers, especially around Loyang. In the western provinces, the bandits are no less numerous, but here they are Mohammedans who are called Chanto, or turban-people, by the Chinese. Any one of these would stick you in the back for 20 cents, but they are a rough, genial sort, and are a problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules...
...order of the speakers for this evening was determined by lot, and is as follows: "Pass Prosperity Around" A. J. Beveridge Fred Ashton Videon '25 "Call to Arms and Liberty or Death" Patrick Henry Joseph Fisher '24 "Speech at the Funeral of a Brother" Robert Ingersoll James Harry Smith Jr. '25 "The Bells" Edgar Allen Poe Arthur Gustave King '26 "The Necessity of Force" John M. Thurston Paul Whitcomb Williams '25 "The Minstrel's Curse" Ludwig Uhland Milton Arnold Kramer '26 "The Last Suttee" Rudyard Kipling Alvan Ruckman Grier Jr. '26 "Revelation" Robert Service Edward Adams Sawin '25 "Blainc...
...left the town deserted now, but its huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh, a magnificent bronze mirror, and some very good fragments of fresco-work...
...sure, however," he added, "we did have a lot of thrills of the kind you mean. The provinces of Honan, Chensi and Chansi are infested with rascally bandits, discharged soldiers, especially around Loyang. In the western provinces, the bandits are no less numerous, but here they are Mohammedans who are called Chanto, or turban-people, by the Chinese. Any one of these would stick you in the back for 20 cents, but they are a rough, genial sort, and are a problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules...