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...particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study of his works with an intensity which would have created a race of theologians had it been devoted to biblical lore. Perhaps the daily bridge women have been asking him questions about religion...
...Council also recommended that: 1) Neutral (Swedish) officers shall supervise the Greco-Bulgar frontier in future. 2) Persons of Greek origin living in Bulgaria shall be transferred to Greece...
...Viking Press has already published "Two Lives," a narrative poem in sonnets, by W. E. Leonard, A.M. '99, and will soon publish "The Origin of the Next War," by John Bakeless...
Fifteen years ago he founded the "Modern Churchman", a magazine which has upheld the cause of Modernism in England. If was in the interests of this same cause that Dr. Major consented to give the Noble lectures this year on "English Modernism. Its Origin, Aims, and Method...
...Benediktbeurer Weihmachts spiel," though of German origin, was written in Latin about 1200 A.D. and was discovered in a thirteenth century manuscript in the monastery of Benediktbeurer in southern Germany. In several respects it is unique. It has a long introduction, the Prophets' Play; Joseph has no lines to speak and Mary only one or two; the Devil appears to the shepherds in the field; and there is a long epilogue recounting events in Egypt...