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...Philip D. Armour I learned that men were finding raw gold in California. He went there, walking a considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John...
...supreme faculty of the human brain is imagination--the ability to see things as they are and not as they appear to be. Fact is the raw material on which imagination works. Knowledge is only the beginning of wisdom; imagination is power. The chief aim of Harvard College is not so much to gain knowledge of this or that subject as it is to gain the power to understand. Growth in understanding means the strengthening of the imagination...
President Andrew G. Pierce explained: "An average 20% decline in wool prices entailed not only a severe shrinkage in the Value of the company's raw material supplies but automatically affected stock in process and finished goods. This, coupled with the abnormally poor demand for goods, tells the story...
...enough above the average wanted, to be of some educational value" continued Mr. Hays, "yet not be so 'high brow' that they are unliked and consequently unpatronized Progress has been made but much remains to be done. The film companies cannot serve a vegetarian diet to people who want raw beef. In one of the largest theatres in Washington, Beau Brummel starring John Barrymore, lost $36,000. The following week "Flaming Youth netted...
...fawns and prays. A bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback from Chicago, holds a chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...