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Last fortnight the right-hand cornerstone of the pyramid of names, Fayolle, was knocked out by Death (TIME, Sept...
...militant glory of France may be summed up, today, in a pyramid of six great names...
Near Berlin, Germany, rises the curious town of Neubabelsberg. To walk through Neubabelsberg is to imagine oneself the Wandering Jew, reviewing his travels in a dream. Here one may stand in awe before India's Taj Mahal, turn the corner and climb an Egyptian pyramid. Miserable Chinese hovels may adjoin the chateau of the French Renaissance. One may be anywhere, at any time, in Neubabelsberg. It is Germany's Hollywood...
Last week the I. C. C. did disapprove. The C. & O. might absorb the Pere Marquette, it declared, but not the Erie. Again the Van Sweringens were frustrated and also had their pyramid system of finance roundly rebuked...
...sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into a ravine close by. There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason...