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...warden had the box on his desk. He showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcosan | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...many years by the Harvard Observatery with its auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru."MILKY WAY The cut of the galaxy reproduced above was made from a photograph taken at the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru. It shows the southern Milky Way with the Southern Cross and the Coal Sack in the middle. The Observatory is to be moved in the near future to Bloemfontein, South Africa, where it has been found climatic conditions are better for astronomical observation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY MOVES TO SOUTH AFRICA | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

From a half crown sack of books in the hands of a London lurk dealer to a place of honor" in the Bunvan collection at the Widernor Library is the journey destined to be taken by a forty-four page first edition of John Bunyan's "A book for Boys and Girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Edition of Bunyan's "A Book for Boys and Girls" Given to University by Anonymous Donor--One Other Copy Extant | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Where can I get gold for all this currency of the Confederate States of America?" was his first question. But Jacob Dreicer had another recourse for livelihood. On the inside of his innermost shirt he had sewed little velvet sacks, and each little velvet sack held a pearl. He knew pearls and emeralds, rubies and sapphires. In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tears for Love | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...summary: JUNIORS SENIORS Dearborn, Lewis l.e. r.e. Kelly Clapp, Herman l.t. r.t. Graves. Delavelle Fox l.g. r.g. Cook, Moody Turney e. c. Byshe Cushing. Foster. Hodges r.g. l.g. Moody, Cook Mulford. r.t. l.t. Ennis Allen. Lone r.e. l.e. Morton. Sears Beard. q.b. q.b. Pruyn Barbee l.h.b. r.h.b. F. Eaton Sack. Sawyer. Lane r.h.b. l.h.b. Norton Taft. Farnsworth f.b. f.b. S. Eaton

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR CLASS ELEVEN TACKS DEFEAT ON 1927 | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

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