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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French archeologists, found the unwieldy schoolbooks of a forgotten university. The books were clay tablets 4,000 years old covered with language lessons in four tongues: Assyro-Chaldean cuneiforms, the language of old time diplomats; Sumerian, the language of scientists; Phoenician, the language of the maritime merchants; and an unknown tongue. Other tablets had Egyptian and Hittite inscriptions. Where the schoolbooks were found, according to the inscriptions which scientists could read, existed a University City called Zapuna, a midpoint joining Mycenaean, Egyptian & Babylonian cultures. There ancient scholars exchanged languages, ideas...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
...puppies with solutions made from the diseased brains. Several weeks later two of the puppies began to run wildly, seemed to have developed the fits. Although his results are not conclusive, Dr. Morrison's work indicates that running fits are induced by diet deficiency, are caused by an unknown virus...
Half the politicians in Lithuania, fancying themselves among the unknown eight, shouted that ex-Dictator Waldemaras should be committed as a lunatic...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...