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Born in Damascus, made Bishop of Baghdad in 1912, Syrian Dallal in 1926 became spiritual leader of Syrians whose faith is one of Christendom's oldest, who live on the sites of such ancient places as Ur, Nineveh and Babylon. Like his swart, bearded self, many of his flock exhibit in their countenances traces of their Jewish ancestry. Archbishop Dallal will find uncounted Syrian Rite noses in half-a-dozen U. S. cities, particularly Grand Rapids, Mich. and Jacksonville...
...Herbert Mendelson's Notre Dame, with her Designer-Builder Clell Perry at the wheel: the Gold Cup, oldest U. S. Speed boat trophy; at the Detroit Yacht Club; with an average speed of 63,675 m. p. h. for three 30-mi. laps-a Gold Cup record...
...China Medical Board Inc. got $10,000 for further digging in the now famed caves at Chou-Kou-Tien whence came the fossil remains of "Pekin Man," generally considered by anthropologists to be the oldest human type ever discovered. C. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, got $61,200 to start and maintain for five years Canada's first university training school for prospective civil servants...
...Certainly," and the Vagabond cleared his throat. "Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in this country. It was founded in 1636 for the training of clergymen...
...edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs sometimes came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers...