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...consisted of 28 stump speeches in support of William ennings Bryan. But he did not choose to imitate Bryan. In 1901, aged 25, having graduated from DePauw University, Elmer Thomas started for the lands of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes, to "make the run" when the Great White Father threw open Indian Territory to his white children. A few months later Elmer Thomas hung his shingle over the doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice...
...painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. . . . And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot Thus, in the lush verses of II Kings 9, died Jezebel, famed oldtime hussy. Buried more than two millennia ago, Jezebel's tower was uncovered by Harvard...
...engine, a Wright Cyclone, was practically new, having flown only 250 hours out of a possible 4,000. The cameras, too, would come in handy. Mr. Davison, able museum man that he is, pointed out that the Colonel had offered all his equipment. A nod of the Lindbergh head threw in engine and cameras...
...theatricals of machine-precision team play, can be more exciting, more sincerely spectacular than the best of college games. Thirty-five forward passes were thrown, 20 completed. With perfect protection from his backfield, the Giants' crack Quarterback Harry Newman (Michigan's All-American of last year) alone threw 17, completed 12. Fullback Jack Manders of the Bears kicked three out of four field goals, one from the 42-yd. line. The lead changed six times, stood 21-to-16 in favor of the Giants in the last minutes of play when the Bears' Fullback Bronko Nagurski duplicated...
...speed of light. Worse, they were not irregular but seemed to occur in well-defined rhythms. There was one cycle of 14¾ days, another of about a year, another apparently following the tides of the ocean. And at 9 p. m. every night something happened which threw the tests entirely askew. Dr. Pease and Assistant Pearson did not say flatly that the speed of light could no longer be regarded as a constant. "The observed irregularities," they said, "are unexplained and their elucidation apparently will require more sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced...