Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lanehow where they came down the Yellow river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored in the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. Photographic records were made of the most important of these wall paintings...
...Giza, Egypt, Dr. George A. Reisner's Harvard-Boston expedition (TIME, March 23, 1925) effected entrance to a burial chamber near the Pyramid of Cheops; deduced from the disposition of furniture and the human remains that it was the reburial place of Cheops' father or mother. Out of a pious desire to have his parent near him in death, the son had moved them...
...doing leisurely buying, and manufacturers keeping production near demand. Many commodity prices, especially of foods, receded slightly during the week. In April, butter, lard, lead, zinc, cotton, print cloths and rubber reached their lows for the year. This happened to copper, hides and beef at the end of March. Gasoline and crude oil have mounted with the opening of the season...
Weary of submitting the teeth of his gift horse to the suspicious scrutiny of Egypt's political leaders (TIME, March 1 et seq.), John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week withdrew his offer to build in Cairo and endow a ten-million-dollar "Temple of the Unfolding Life of Man." A finishing touch to the farce was added by Mr. Rockefeller. His last letter to King Fuad of Egypt explained that the gift was withdrawn "to relieve the Egyptian Government of embarrassment." Still fumbling about for reasons for Egypt's reluctance other than the seemingly true one? Egypt's political misgivings...
...tonight, Tufts night, will be as follows: Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba" Gounod Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolar Fantasia, "Fedora" Giordano Tufts Songs Overture "Euterpe" Chadwick Symphonic Poem, "Finlandia" Sibelius Carnival in Paris Svendsen Tufts Songs Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Waltz "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Wedding March Mendelssohn