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...well's brink whence the victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge, and after removing tons of mud put on his rubber armor and steel helmet, dropped down and recovered 90 skeletons and a priceless collection of jade and golden images, now on view at the Peabody museum. The Carnegie Foundation will carry on his work...
...Duke, no miser, graciously accepted. Straightway the documents were brought forth, reclassified, found to contain a priceless series of contemporary royal decrees affecting Columbus, as well as a great portion of the correspondence between the great navigator and Queen Isabella...
...school prepares you for the University, so the University offers you priceless opportunities to lay the foundations upon which in later life you will build your castles," said the Honorable Joseph C. Grew '02, Under Secretary of State, in an address Saturday evening at an informal meeting of the Class of 1929 in the Union. He continued...
First and foremost, the development of scholarship. That is the primary and fundamental purpose of the University. Scholarship is an end in itself, a priceless gift that enriches life, that ennobles its possessor, that renders limitless the joy of living, that raises human standards and promotes human progress. But tonight I want to look at scholarship from the point of view of its practical applicability to your future careers...
Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...