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...mentioned before died an unfortunate death. Rumors that it may perpetrate a resurrection about its sex quiz may bear some truth, but the defalcation of that sheet to its subscribers and the abortive miscellany of their earlier efforts prove any future ghostings to be but echoes in their plastered tomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD LIBERAL | 3/27/1934 | See Source »

Eschewing modern or mechanistic design, Architect Iofan drew a Romanesque pyramid of six fluted, concentric cylinders which together form a pedestal for a 260-ft. statue of Nicolai Lenin, with his face turned to his own tomb on the Red Square. Steps 492 ft. wide lead from the street up to a colonnaded arcade opening into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Soviet Palace | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...they are mistaken. There is very little precipitation in Arabia, and the only things which tend to change the topography are sand storms, but these are few in number. Relics found in deep gulleys, where water would have flowed if there was much rain, are perfectly preserved; some tomb stones and monuments have been toppled over, it is true, because of the corrosion caused by sand around the bases, but the inscriptions are still intact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruins Observed By Pilot Probably Not Capital City Of Famed Queen Of Sheba, Declares Lake | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

...Boys back at center as the only change from his last game's lineup. Columbia will put on the floor the same men that played in their last Harvard game, with Captain McDowell, who netted eleven points in that tilt at the pivot position. HARVARD COLUMBIA Merry, r.f. l.f., Tomb Ferriter, l.f. r.f., Asselin Boys, c. c., McDowell Henderson, r.g. l.g., Meisel Fletcher, l.g. r.g., Maroon

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS FACE WEAK COLUMBIA LIONS | 3/7/1934 | See Source »

HARVARD COLUMBIA Morse, r.f. l.f., Tomb Merry, l.f. r.f., Asselin Boys, c. c., McDowell Fletcher, r.g. r.g., Meisel Ferriter, l.g. r.g., Maroon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL SQUAD TO OPPOSE COLUMBIA FIVE | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

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