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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government suppressed and darkened every electric sign which might have profaned the scene. As thousands and tens of thousands filed past the bier, all night long the only light was that from funeral torches and the blue "Sacred Flame" which burns eternally beneath the Arch for the Unknown Soldier...
...cutting our way with machete hatchets through dense underbrush, now wading through water up to our knees, with the ever-present fear of the moccasin snake, whose bite is more deadly than that of the rattler, we made our way into the heart of a comparatively unknown region...
Certainly much larger is the yet unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...
Prophesies as to the future relations between the workman, the job and the machine are contained in the latest work of Stuart Chase entitled "Machines, the Story and Machinery and its Human Effects" and published by the MacMillan company. It is written as a adventurous trip into an unknown and interesting field...
...Harvard Union at which Professor R. P. Boas '17 of Mount Holyoke College will be toast-master, the speakers will be Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling of Smith College, who will talk on "Imagination In and Out of School", Professor S. F. Damon '14 of Brown University, who will discuss "Unknown American Literature", and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '12, who will discuss some phase of his grandfather's work...