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...agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which began in May (TIME, May 10). At Gibraltar, a Miss Garrod of Oxford University unearthed the frontal bone and other fragments of an immature human skull estimated 25,000 years old (Stone Age). At Corinth, Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton University conducted excavations on the great theatre site, disclosing several superimposed theatres of various eras, sculptures of Greeks and Amazons embattled, the labors of Hercules, giants' heads...
...interfering less with other workmen. The time saved was over 20%. Strength tests showed the welded joints to be 100% strong, as against a 65% to 70% average for riveted joints?that is, the welds were as strong as the girders they joined, often stronger under test stresses. Rivets shear or rip out their holes sooner than the girders break...
...Greek painting-a decoration upon the guard walls of an arena, showing gladiatorial combats lifesize, in color. A Targe Roman villa of the First Century A. D. yielded floor mosaics that are "without doubt the finest thing of the sort yet found in Greece," according to Dr. T. Leslie Shear of the American School of Classical Studies...
...batting orders follow: HARVARD. YALE. Coolidge, l.f. 1b., Shear Harvey, 2b. s.s., Goodell Devereux, r.f. 3b., Handy Mason, c.f. l.f., Vaughn Phillips, 3b. c., Y. Stevens Edgerton, s.s. p., R. Stevens O'Day, 1b. 2b., Beedy Osborn, c. r.f., Carl Whitney, p. c.f., Houpt
...will be changed to a less acrid fluid tonight; the busy blue pencil will pause in its course; the snicking shear will, for the nonce, be silent, when, to celebrate its forty-first year of existence as a college newspaper, the CRIMSON will give a dinner in the Union...