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City Haul. Herbert Rawlinson, one of the good looking men that girls of a decade ago used to admire at the cinema, proves to be a better legitimactor than most of his Hollywood brethren who have tried the stage. As the well-tailored and unscrupulous Mayor of an Illinois city, he performs with a constant gusto and occasional subtlety which extracts a modicum of amusement from a superficial play about municipal grafting. The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able...
Died. General Lord Henry S. Rawlinson, 61, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in India; in Delhi, of appendicitis. He was made a General in recognition of his services during the first Battle of the Somme, where he commanded the first British offensive. The French called him "Le Général Bonne Humeur" because of his unfailing cheerfulness and optimism; his tactical genius was praised by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener...
Among these are a copy made from the Tanner Manuscript of the Bodleian Library, probably the one from which Ferrar printed the original text in 1633, a copy made from the one in Williams Library, Gordon Square, London, which probably dates back to 1629, a copy from the Rawlinson Manuscript of the Bodleian Library, dating 1714, a note-book used by Professor Palmer in the preparation of his own edition, and various London editions of George Herbert's poems dating 1799, 1806, 1835, 1836, 1846, 1853, 1854, 1859, 1863, 1869, 1876, 1883, 1885, 1899 and 1904, and American editions...
...Disciple students who care to identify themselves with this society will kindly send their names to the president, C. C. Rawlinson, 1524 Cambridge street, or L. W. Kline, secretary, 46 Mt. Auburn street...
...various signs were syllables and not letters. From this discovery the work went rapidly forward. In 1857 so much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee of scholars to test the accuracy of the translations. The committee submitted to Rawlinson, Hinch, and Fox Talbot copies of a long passage of writting from one of the old Assyrian kings. Independent translations were to be made and returned in sealed packages to the committee. These translations showed such a large amount of agreement that there has never since been reason to doubt...