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When he was moving his office last year the moving men found a great pyramid of books in a corner of his old office. As the books were taken away, corners of a desk appeared under the pile, finally a whole desk. Dr. Welch was surprised; confessed that he had lost the desk several years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patriarch's Party | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, set sail from Manhattan with her daughter Roberta and 75 pilgrims for the Holy Land. She said she intended to preach a sermon from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, another (on the evils of gambling) at Monte Carlo, but denied she would fly over Russia dropping pamphlets denouncing religious persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 7, 1930 | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...July 5 camp was moved to Snaring Junction, twelve miles from Jasper. Work here was delayed somewhat by a succession of rainy days, but a week later the camp was transferred to the shores of Pyramid Lake from which point the mapping of the geology was extended over a large area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Geology Group of Summer School Had an Eventful Time on Expedition in Canadian Rockies | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...were others. Death was waiting for them, they knew that as soon as the cloud of gas sprang out of the gate. They backed up to the wall on the opposite side of the yard, clawed at it with their nails, climbed on each other's backs trying to pyramid over. As shots followed them, they ran inside the south cell block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...topic will be "The first three dynasties: the organization of the administration; the arts and crafts; crude brick architecture; the step pyramid of Saqoara; granite temples of Giza. The next talk of the group, to be given next Tuesday, will continue in the same vein, being on "the consequences of the great period, dynasties V-VI. The causes of the collapse of the first great monarchy of Egypt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REISNER TO LECTURE ON DYNASTIES TODAY | 11/29/1929 | See Source »

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