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Psousennes' pink granite funerary chamber is rectangular, 23 by 10 ft. The big granite sarcophagus, carved on the sides in bas-relief, has a cover depicting the king as the god Osiris, supine, with a goddess kneeling behind him and stretching protective arms over his head. The sarcophagus contained a silver mummy case. Before opening this, the professor decided to await the arrival of King Farouk, an enthusiastic amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psousennes Found | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...third day of his jubilee, John Lewis observed that he wished television were at hand to bring the sight in the hall to his NBC hearers. Suddenly his miners saw a sight indeed: a red, rectangular flag with the hammer-&-sickle of Soviet Russia and U. S. Communism lowered down from the flies above the auditorium stage, over Mr. Lewis' head. Angry delegates leaped from their seats. To puzzled Mr. Lewis, who did not see the flag, a convention secretary passed a note. The offensive emblem was removed. "It appears," said Mr. Lewis, whose union has long barred known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Jubilee | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...over C in the International Code of Flag Signals. The N flag is blue-and-white checkered; the C has five horizontal stripes, the middle red, flanked by two whites, the outsides blue. Both are rectangular. The message, in any language: "In distress. Need prompt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Code of the Sea | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Costing nearly a million dollars, the building is strictly classical in style, rectangular in shape, with Ionian pilasters, on the fads. The foundations extend 22 feet below the surface in order to accommodate two floors of book-stacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Million Dollar Public Administration Building Nears Completion | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...city, said he, is an organism, evolves like other living things. It begins as a village, roughly square in shape, then, constantly reaching out and expanding like an amoeba, it grows into an irregularly rectangular town, develops into a triangular metropolis, finally shoots out long tentacles or arms (the suburbs). All these processes Professor Bailey calls "conurbanisms." Within the city, also, changes in the organs take place. Thus in Chicago decentralization has been going on, and today there are 50 outlying business centres more conspicuous from the air than the Loop. Most startling observation by Professor Bailey is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Conurbanisms | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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