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...Mohammed. Jidda harbor is protected by two miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates are generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely Arab citizens, all of whom carry knives. Christian prospectors for Standard...
...among a maze of pipes in the basement of Adams House, Held is arranging his studio where he will spend the next few months sculpting, painting, and receiving interested student callers. According to a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, he will serve as "artist in residence," continuing his own work and helping students in creative...
...defense council which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus. Fashionable, popular way for Finns to spend their vacation the past two years was to go dig on the Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet...
...last stanza, allowing the Jayvees to push over two touchdowns, one on a pass from "Squibby" Squibb to Gordon and the other on a short pass, Bigwood to Kayser. Fumbling the pass from center in an attempted kick for the extra point, Feary plunged over through a maze of Terrier tacklers to make the score...
...tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...