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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute of Research of Japan to the Fogg Art Museum to cooperate in investigations of early Western and Eastern art," stated Professor Langdon Warner '03, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Warner has made numerous trips of exploration and excavation in central China and Thibet in search of remains of Maya civilization and has just gotten back from a visit in Japan...
...brilliantly successful. Prices soared far above 40?., reached a high in 1925 of $1.21 a pound and in that year averaged 73? U. S. rubber users, tiremakers, were in a public panic. They pressed a campaign of conservation. They began to "reclaim" used rubber. They started a world-wide search for plantations where the U. S. might produce its own supply. They commissioned Thomas Alva Edison to study how to extract rubber from such plants as milkweed. And, in 1926, tiremakers formed the Rubber Pool to buy a great supply at between 35 and 41? a pound...
...fresh recurrence of wild gun play on the part of officers of the peace comes nearer home with the assault on a Harvard student by a policeman of three weeks standing. The complications of violated traffic signals and the search for a stolen car happily caused no more damage than the puncturing of a hat. But a change of a few degrees in the course of the bullet would have meant death...
...when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...
...Woolworth's effort through employment of seven persons to search out interesting fashion ideas that can be sold at ice a copy...