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Reports from Fez indicate that on retiring from Ajdir before the Spanish advance, Abd-el-Krim fled to the all but inaccessible Beni Arous Mountains, the most rugged of the Atlas Range. There, with his brother, Sidi Muhammed, and some tens of thousands of faithful tribesmen, he is reported to...
Some big, shaggy Tian Shan ibexes, shaggier Tian Shan sheep, still shaggier Asiatic bears, some Siberian roe (small deer), some Tahr gazelles, some goitered gazelles, and some 600 small birds and mammals, all dead and on the pack ponies of two lively brothers Roosevelt, entered the ancient city of Kashgar...
There are not many within or without the doors of American education who would follow in the footsteps of this rugged and courageous professor. Every June hordes of successful men come to the universities for the honor of a brief association with prominent academicians, while these latter themselves are not...
Education, under the direction of Soviet Commisar Lunacharsky, is proceeding with a heavy emphasis upon Marxian doctrines. An attempt to bring students face to face with "reality" is hailed by the Bolsheviki as tending to fit pupils for the rugged highway of life. The former propertied class who have young...
In the Cafe Neant ("Nothingness"), Montmartre, Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with...