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...Mohammedan theory that "all are equal before Allah in prayer," the World's Richest Man prostrated himself with his subjects at the Great Mosque and everyone prayed. Poems were recited and the venerable Hindu Premier read an address hailing his Mohammedan Monarch as "today the sole relic of Mogul greatness in India...
Apparently the time when sex could be discussed only behind closed doors and in subdued whispers has become a relic of the past at Vassar. Consciousness of the ever-present dangers of marital entanglements has led the administration to agree that correspondence schools should not hold a monopoly on such valuable instruction...
...President, as pertinent to this particular subject, I ask unanimous consent that the clerk read an interesting relic of real constitutional government...
Thunderous applause broke from the galleries. After aroused New Dealers had unbosomed themselves for ten minutes, unreconstructed Mr. Glass again got to his feet. "Mr. President, I distinctly stated when asking to have the message of a great Democratic President read . . . that it was 'a relic of constitutional government.' ... I merely desire to indicate now that I am not one of the Senators who is proud of the fact that some people in Virginia want to make a pawnshop out of the Treasury of the U. S. . . . Mr. President, I had not purposed to raise a riot...
...same genus as the immature fossil Australopithecus found in 1924. A brain case discovered in England appeared to be older than Piltdown Man. A cranial piece dug out of a California creek, though probably not much more than 30,000 years old, looked like the oldest human relic ever found in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Few weeks ago from the cave at Chou-Kou-Tien, whence the famed pair of skulls belonging to Pekin Man first came to light in 1929, came news that two more skulls had been found. Reported from China last week...