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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon evident that the hole was cut in one of the upper corners of a chamber of almost unparallelled size. The long yellow shafts of the lights could hardly penetrate the dark to the bottom. Only the glint of gold could be distinguished. A sort of "plank" could be made out across the top of sarcophagus. On the plank was inscribed in golden hieroglyphics, the name "Sneferu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS OF IMPORTANT TREASURES IN NILE VALLEY EVADES PRESS CENSOR | 2/2/1926 | See Source »

...draw has made it possible for the Crimson racquet swingers to fill both of the final berths, as they are all in the upper bracket. Baring upsets, Rawlins and Debevoise should meet in the round before the semi-final with the winner playing Wright providing also that the number one man on the University team makes his way through the first five rounds without mishap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN SEEK BAKER'S LAURELS | 2/2/1926 | See Source »

...semi-final match in the upper half of the University tournament between Wright and Rawlins has been postponed until the player have completed the competition in the state individual tournament. The winner will meet L. S. Haskins '26, who defeated P. M. Lenhart '27, in the other semi-final contest after coming from behind to overcome a large lead. The coming fight for the final berth promises to be the most interesting as well as the closest of the tournament. The Crimson lead off player is a smashing, hard hitting performer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN SEEK BAKER'S LAURELS | 2/2/1926 | See Source »

...mirage that has been flickering for weeks over a whole city block on Manhattan's upper West Side, ceased flickering last week and stood motionless, a fixed vision. It has the shape of a skyscraper of the Babylo-American style. It is the home-to-be of the Metropolitan Opera Company, a towering image of efficient U. S. culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Magazine | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

Scowling, muttering, grumbling among themselves, some U. S. artists paced their studios. They were not merely annoyed; they felt grieved and hurt. On the upper end of Manhattan Island a vast edifice was arising, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which had been conceived and financed not solely as a monument to religion, but as a monument to U. S. religion, supported by all creeds and classes, a monument to and by U. S. art, an expression of the nation's creative genius in the 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Cram's Cathedral | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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