Word: sands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner got into a bed in London's Cardiff Hotel, she quickly jumped out. The sheets were strewn with sand...
Egypt. At Gizeh, near the great pyramids of Chephren and of Cheops, Professor Selim Hassan of Cairo gouged into a bank of mud and sand left by the encroaching Nile, came upon the limestone tomb of a princess whom he took to be the daughter of Chephren. This Pharaoh was of the Fourth Dynasty, which experts variously locate between 3,100 and 2,800 B. c. The sarcophagus was completely sealed with mortar, evidence that thieves had never broken...
...SAND CASTLE - Janet Beith - Stokes ($2.50). Diffuse three-generation chronicle tracing the rise and decline of a Manchester textile manufacturing family; a second novel by the $20,000 prize-winning English author of No Second Spring...
...watching his own son reading at home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical Co. in 1895 and withdrawn from production four years later...
...lack of money to correct it. The policy is plain short-sightedness on the part of a corporation which every year gives Freshmen increased discretion in course selection and new fields of study. By neglecting first-year men they are building an elaborate scholastic temple on foundations of sand...