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Fez. Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself...
After the close of business June 30, officers & clerks of each & every one of the 6,800 national banks began to marshal blunt columns of Arabic numerals for which U. S. Comptroller John William Pole was anxiously waiting in Washington. Though it was the first call he had issued this...
Mysterious mercury, the only metal liquid at ordinary temperatures, was the basis for the alchemical transmutation of the elements. With retorts, alembics, beakers, pots, furnaces and incantations. Greek. Latin and Arabic experimenters sought first to purge quicksilver of Aristotle's four pristine elements. Mercury cleansed of earth, fire, air...
"The practical mind will comment that there is no reason why an Arabic numeral needs to be graceful or good looking. There is no reason why a young female needs to be graceful or good looking?but we like them that way."
Nest. Poet Jeffers' birthplace was Pittsburgh, in 1887. From North Ireland had come his paternal grandfather. His father, an LL.D. learned in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, had married an orphan 23 years, his junior. John Robinson Jeffers was the first fruit; the second. Hamilton Jeffers, now engaged in astronomical work...