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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then where is he?" demanded Consul Geist, receiving for answer a characteristic froglike stare. Accustomed to this, as are all consuls in Germany, Mr. Geist pursued his search, could not find Prisoner Roiderer last week in the curious morass of the New Justice...
...makes Eleusis by far the oldest Greek city exhumed and, according to Dr. Mylonas, disposes of the theory that the rites were imported from Egypt. Also cleared last season was the 14th Century Palace of the Rulers, where the Goddess was supposed to have taken refuge. An object of search and speculation for 25 years, the palace revealed one room closely resembling the throne room of the Palace at Knossos. Broken pottery and crude clay figurines were found. Final task was clearing the well beside which the goddess rested. The diggers were hopeful that it contained a wealth of objects...
...Francis Christopher McCormack, Holy Name's medical director, summoned Bacteriologist William Hallock Park of New York City's Department of Health and Pathologist Leila Charlton Knox of St. Luke's Hospital to take the nine dead babies apart and search for the cause. Able Drs. Park and Knox could find no germ, no poison to account for the deaths...
...inquisitor learned that Brooks once conducted the Beulah Home & Maternity Hospital in Chicago two doors from the garage where seven Chicago bootleggers were massacred on St. Valentine's Day, 1929. A search of the House last week disclosed a musty operating room and bundles of letters from girls promising to pay for upkeep of themselves and children...
...Conquest of the Maya is written by an archeologist who is also a novelist, hence an enemy of dry-as-dust procedure. Mr. Mitchell insists, too categorically for such cautious Americanists as Philip Means (Ancient Civilization of the Andes'), that wandering Polynesians or Chinese, in search of "life-givers" such as gold, landed somewhere along the coasts of South or Central America to bring culture to the Aztec, Inca and Maya Indians of the New World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor...