Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with any of the other pedagogic Farrands (see...
Vesuvius's eruption last week (see p. 27) speeded the translation and reporting of wall signs in Pompeii, which diggers are still clearing of the ashes poured on that pleasure resort by the volcano in A. D. 79. The signs are painted on the walls and are chiefly electioneering vaunts. Examples: ''Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk"; "If you care for good bread and better plays, vote for Cleonius Prisus"; ''Vote for Julius Politius, a man as handsome as the god Apollo...
Flying Governor. Governor George Alexander Parks of Alaska was at Juneau when he made up his mind to see his niece (he is unmarried), Mary Catherine Thompson, graduated from Mills College, Oakland, Cal., last Monday. So he jumped into an Alaska Airways Lockheed-Vega and made the 1,800-mi. trip in 20½, hours, first air passenger to accomplish it in so short a time...
...See front cover...
...list (see p. 51) of U. S. colleges and universities, and individuals upon whom they this year bestow kudos. The name of one great university is missing. It is missing every year. Cornell University gives no honorary degrees...