Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Picture a gorge some 3000 feet deep with a trail blown out of its perpendicular cliffs and right through 25 spurs which were too difficult to circumvent, where a single miss-step means death. That is the sort of approach to the silver mine which I visited during the past summer," said Professor D. H. McLaughlin in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday morning...
Professor McLaughlin went to Mexico last summer as geologist for a corporation which owns a rich silver mine on the Mess Central, a huge table and near the border of Durango and Sinalon, two native states on the West Coast...
...silver is refined by the cyanide process," he continued, "and is packed out about 78 miles by mule-back in the form of bricks. That trail is no little promenade even in the daytime; but we found ourselves on it one evening in the pitch dark and rain with five miles of the hardest stretch before us. It is no fund picking your way along with a roaring torrent about 1000 feet directly below...
...seemed that there was to be an epidemic of new and more gruesome aspect. The World's Series was unexpectedly over, Congress still adjourned, transoceanic airplanes were being trundled into hangars, bootleggers were plying their trade without undue interference, the waters of the world were a quiet silver and the same winds that had pounced upon a great city now mewed like gentle cats. But three U. S. mothers had killed or tried to kill their children. Three is a crowd, four is an epidemic. Grubby, cutthroat editors, eager to mountainize and multiply such small and terrible tragedies, chewed...
Turning to the pieces of oriental influence, China is responsible for the silver bronze of the lovely "Yang Kuel Zel", the powerful favorite of the most famous of T'ang Emperors. Her body moves in one curve slowly and delicately. Very different is the more varied and violent posture of the "Chinese Actor", in lacquered poplar. Japanese art has suggested "The Conspirator", The Japanese Courtesan" and, above all, the "Ishikawa Danjuro". This last follows very closely the precedent set for this actor in Japanese prints, but the change to sculpture has been most cleverly made so that the piece loses...