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...contents some weary soul had poured forth his ennui--not in song, but in some weavy chirographs which may have been Arabic or Greeg Shorthand. The same pen had engraved at the top of the page, "Mich, dich, sich, Teufel", and at the margin a sketch which bore some resemblance to the professor in the course for which the book was prescribed...
Since the failure of the Steel Strike, Foster has been a director of the Trade Union Educational League, an organization whose aim is to "bore within" conservative unions...
...White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever forget: "Watching this glorious withdrawal of the ice. I was filled with terror and revolt at seeing the awful spoils which the Yenisei bore away in this annual retreat. These were the bodies of the executed counter-revolutionaries . . . Hundreds of these bodies with heads and hands cut off, with mutilated faces and bodies half burned, with broken skulls, floated and mingled with the blocks of ice, looking for their graves: or, turning in the furious whirlpools among...
...rather not, Mil, if you don't mind. I'm tired of wasting my time. It's an awful bore, just fooling around with the fellows and studying...
...Nippur unmistakably antedating the Hebrew epic by ten centuries, and giving in surprisingly similar detail, even to names, the creation and fail of man. Supplemented by other records, a complete Sumerian legend can be constructed, which carries the history of Babylonia up to a flood strangely like that which bore Noah on his famous voyage. Thenceforward, the tale is different, and, as the critics would have said, the Hebrew plagiarism ceases...