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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers, restaurants. Besides the two main halls, there will be four conference rooms. The base of the Palace will be marble and granite; the rest, tufa, a purple-red volcanic stone found in the Caucasus. Lenin's statue will be aluminum or chrome steel. Including the statue, the building will be 1,361 ft. high...
...land in Southern Arabia midway between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea probably saw the ruins of some ancient city, but it is doubtful whether it was ever the home of the famous queen," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been attracted into the center of this barren region...
...mail to help them make ends meet and earn a return on capital invested. New passenger lines would hardly be set up to compete with existing lines even if mail subsides were granted. For the history of aviation shows that there isn't enough volume of business on the main routes to justify new lines any more than there would be for the building of any more railroads between New York and Washington...
...principles of selection are challenging: "I am confining my selection to poems Britain has not accepted an in the main that the British literary bureaucracy does not want to have printed in England." He warns T. S. Eliot against becoming associated with "a horrible and microcephalous bureaucracy which dislikes poetry, it might not be too much to say, loathes...
...annual smoker will take place on Wednesday, March 28 in the main dining hall of the Union. The job of the committee is to take over the task of arranging for the entertainment, refreshments and souvenirs of the traditional Freshman social affair. Definite plans for the entertainment will be announced at a later date. This is only the third smoker to be held in the Union, the first having been...