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Many men have tried to establish communication with Mars. From the most star-gazing professor of stellar history radiographing scientific inquiries, to the youngest Boy Scout wig-wagging questions about the baseball score, men of various degrees of wisdom have talked with the unheeding planet. Mars has been unresponsive. Perhaps that is because Mars is a gentleman and refuses to speak without a proper introduction to a chance acquaintance, especially such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language...
...monument to those of her sons who have fallen in the European war-whether they fell in the German ranks or with the Allies. No distinction is made between those romantic spirits who gave their lives for the world's sake in opposing the Huns, and the German boy who was called to his colors. No distinction is made between the cause of the allies and the cause of Germany. The monument celebrates both causes indifferently. It approves the invasion of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania by the same act and in the same degree that it approves...
Born in 1600, Claude Gellee, called is Lorraine from his native province of France, ventured to Rome in his youth struggled as a paint-boy in Tassi's studio, and won his first recognition from Cardinal Bentivoglio, who, in 1629, purchased two pictures from the young artist. When Pope Urban, who was shown them by the cardinal, expressed his exceptional pleasure, the landscapes of Claude became the fashion, and his fame steadily rose during the rest of his long life of 82 years. At his death he was a recognized classic, his reputation remaining steadily supreme in his field throughout...
...Billie Boy...
...principal weakness seemed to be a disinclination to endure drudgery patiently for a long time and an apparent desire to advance faster than circumstances often seemed to warrant. Other than this he was apt on the whole to develop into a more capable, intelligent, and efficient man than the boy who lacked a college education. New York Times...