Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual contents of the mysterious inscriptions found last summer on Mount Sinal by Professors Lake and Blake, proved to the unscholarly listener less interesting than the circumstances under which they were found, than the very fact that they were found and deciphered. To the study of languages is added an important link--a connection between obscure Phoenician characters and Egyptian writings. For a scholar the story which Professor Butin of Catholic University tells of their deciphering must be of absorbing interest, regardless of the trivialties of the actual meaning. To those who make no claim to being scholars, the interest...
This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Large Lecture Hall of the New Fogg Museum, Professor Raymond Francois Butin, foremost American authority on Egyptology and Semitic Languages, will lecture on the inscriptions found last summer by Professors Kirsopp Lake and R. P. Blake on their expedition to Serabit el Khadem on Mount Sinai...
Under the auspices of the Fogg Museum and through the instrumentality of Professors Kirsopp Lake and R. P. Blake, there will be a lecture tomorrow afternoon in the Fogg Museum by Professor Romain Francois Butin, prominent Egyptologist, who did most of the deciphering last summer on the stone in sariptions chipped from Mount Sinaj by the two University professors...
...accurate sketch of Mr. Baker: "His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop...
After a three months' vacation, the French Parliament last week reassembled. Its first act was to free four Communist Deputies - MM. Cachin, Duclos, Marty, Doriot-who were imprisoned during the summer for sedition. It was made clear to the four that as soon as the Chamber of Deputies ended its session they must go back to prison and "spend their vacations there." Deputy Franklin-Bouillon and a small party of his friends resigned from the Socialist party and formed the Radical Unionist party, the eleventh in French politics. The session continued...