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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great American civilization that vanished suddenly from Central America, and the mystery of the Mayas remains unsolved. An expedition headed by Dr. H. J. Spinden '06, of the Peabody Museum and the writer Gregory Mason, is now on its way to the Yucatan to explore territory hither to unknown in the hope of finding new clues to the archaeological riddle of the Maya civilization. In this article, reprinted from the New York Times, Mr. Mason describes the problems and hopes of the expedition...
Aluminum. The story of the political fight which opened last week really begins in the history of the metal. Aluminum, or aluminium as it is scientifically known, is a comparatively common element. It makes up about 7.28% of the earth (exclusive of the unknown interior).* It is exceedingly useful because it is malleable (not brittle), does not rust and only slightly tarnishes, and is very light, only about a third as heavy as iron. None the less it was not really isolated as a metal until 1828, the reason being that it is comparatively difficult to separate from the other...
...unknown author of the original newspaper article was evidently staging an entirely imaginative expose of the "bureaucratic conduct of affairs in the War Department." He should know that combat infantry organizations, in which the Secretary of War and his immediate subordinates served, are not the best breeding places for bureaucratic methods of any kind...
...this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." On the other side is stamped a likeness of famed philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The discs are the Carnegie Hero Medals. Last week one of them?a silver one?was awarded to Edda Mussolini, able swimmer, rescuer of an unknown woman from drowning (TIME, Aug 17), young daughter of famed Benito Mussolini...
...Last Edition" which, for some reason unknown to us was included on the same bill stars the portly Ralph Lewis, who has been everything from a good mail man to a bad boy scout, as foreman of a pressroom. We quarrel with this picture on grounds of professional honesty. When a press room no matter what press room assumes some such motto as Love, Honor and Purity then someone is lying and ought to have his mouth washed out with soap. The type setter's quartet broadcasting "Sweet Adcline" before the evening's work, for all the world like...