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...tumulation (burial) of the Holy Father, a scattering of candles lit St. Peter's, in whose dim, religious light sat several thousand invited diplomats, nobles, churchmen and Vatican functionaries. The clergy of the Basilica committed Pius XI to his God with the same prayers chanted for humble sinners. Thirty-seven Cardinals gazed for the last time at the Pope's shrunken visage, then descended to St. Peter's crypt while workmen fastened down the wooden coffin-lids, soldered the leaden one. (They ran out of solder, held up the tumulation until more was found.) Finally...
...observatory Dr. Prager will join the Milton Bureau, an organization subsidized by the Milton Fund of the University, and the members of which are analyzing the light variations of the two or three thousand brightest variable stars and will before the conclusion of their study amass more than a million observations and record the behavior of these stars on photographs taken since...
...final try-outs for the Olympic ski-jumping team will be held at Berlin, New Hampshire on Sunday. A crowd of thirty thousand is expected to witness the jumping which will be from the world's highest steel tower. The winners will compete in the Olympic Games in Finland...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge of the rock-bedded river which separates Puigcerda from the French border village of Bourg-Madame. All of Catalonia was theirs. On the other side of the river, less than 500 yards away, several thousand Loyalist soldiers dumped their arms and ammunition into piles at the roadside and tramped dejectedly off to French concentration camps...
...Copley, Macbeth was roaring his last speech to Macduff. His bosom heaved, and his voice thundered out over the audience, rolling majestically up even to the furthermost balcony. His bushy red eyebrows beetled noticeably. Everything had gone against him. His wife had died pitiably. Ten thousand English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...