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...servant "Harbor Hill" mansion on Long Island, ousted their superintendent from his snug, white lodge on the grounds, moved into the lodge. Last week the Mackays prepared to move back to "Harbor Hill." For the present they will open only the south side of the mansion, keep a skeleton staff...
Throughout the past six weeks. Harlow has been combing the College to find new material for his squad, and the time has been occupied wholly in teaching elementals, with nothing nearer a scrimmage than running through plays with skeleton teams...
...event saddened many, it surprised few. As she aged, the Mauretania grew more & more expensive to operate. Two years ago her owners painted her famed old hull white, sent her on West Indies cruises. Last autumn she was tied up at Southampton with a skeleton crew aboard. In January the crew was dismissed, the four big stacks covered over, the 70,000-h.p. turbines shut down...
Although the great hornless rhinoceros which paleontologists call Baluchitherium was undoubtedly the largest mammal that ever walked the Earth, not a trace of him was found until 1911. No complete skeleton of this 25,000,000-year-old monster exists anywhere, and the only skull, found in the Gobi by Dr. Walter Granger, is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dissatisfied with tentative representations of Baluchitherium as he looked in life, Dr. Granger decided that close study of the Museum's 200 miscellaneous bones would permit a more accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion...
...space rentals, concessions, contributions, etc. Most debts and expenses, totaling $28,548,225, had been paid, including $10,000,000 to bondholders. That left the fair with a net balance of $773,651 on Dec. 31. After it has completed demolition, satisfied a few remaining claims, paid off a skeleton staff now cleaning up odds & ends, A Century of Progress will turn any surplus over to Chicago's South Park Board, whose land was used for exhibits, and to scientific institutions...