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Maya Curse (Field Museum of Chicago). In southwest Mexico, 35 miles south by southeast of Valladolid and at the western border of Quintana Roo, the Mason-Blodgett expedition sent by the Field Museum of Chicago came upon a highway built by ancient Mayans 40 feet wide and raised ten feet from the ground...
...Rogers died, in 1909, Ryan became president of the Amalgamated. Next year he dealt with Montana copper-companies in such a way that Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought the subsidiaries of the Amalgamated, and after a proper interval he became president, then chairman, of Anaconda. During little more than ten years he has built the company's assets up to more than half a billion dollars. It produces 15% of the world's copper each year, and is the world's largest producer of silver...
...jump was ?1,000. Mr. Dring would jump first, Mr. Maggs would outbid him, then Dr. Rosenbach would go over both of them. Dr. Rosenbach never outbid the proxy of the British Museum until his English competitor had done so. After ?10,000, the price went up more slowly. "Ten thousand and a hundred," said Mr. Dring. "And a hundred," said Mr. Maggs. Dr. Rosenbach took off his glasses; "And a hundred," he whispered. For one round, each raised the other ?10, as if they were all nearing the limit. The gallery sat back, talking and sighing. They wanted...
...that she wanted to sell it, people wondered why. What kind of wonderland is this, they said, in which a little girl so fails to keep the "simple and loving heart of her childhood," that she will part with something that other persons find precious when it should be ten times more precious to her than to any one else? But Alice Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell, married, grown old, the mother...
...greatest danger involved in the new plan of intercollegiate scholastic competition is, perhaps, that it will be taken too seriously. A comparison of the ten best divisional examination papers at Harvard and Yale in English, or in any other subject, with appropriate prizes provided for the college which is deemed to have struck the higher average could scarcely in itself be detrimental to the best interests of education. A certain amount of glory attached to the victorious college an to the individual victors is also desirable as an incentive to greater academic effort. The glory thus won by the victorious...