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...marked with barrack-room gusto, particularly when he produces the trump that his opponents have failed to snare, or when he makes his slam or sets his opponents. An old bridge friend says: "The card rises vertically in the President's hand, then describes a 90-degree arc. It hits the table with a thump, upsetting ash trays and opponents...
...knocked out 39 opponents in 54 fights, yet lost his crucial bouts with Heavyweight Champions Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He came closest to the title in 1899 when he battled Jeffries at Coney Island for 25 rib-cracking rounds under a broiling bank of 400 arc lights (for an early attempt at indoor movies). After running a famous bar on Manhattan's 14th Street, he drifted to the West Coast, died a pauper...
...business woman meets violent disagreement from a man she knows only slightly, she cannot shame or flabbergast her opponent without being labeled a battle-ax . . . She is always a salesman on the side . . . Successful women know who they are: they don't confuse themselves with Joan of Arc or Sarah Bernhardt or Florence Nightingale and, unlike some male executives, they don't confuse themselves with the President of the U.S. or God Almighty...
...final figure, checked over & over, was almost too pat to believe. Einstein's theory predicts that a star whose light just grazes the sun should appear to shift its position by 1.75 seconds of arc.* The figure computed from Van Biesbroeck's photographs showed a shift of 1.70 seconds of arc. The Supreme Court of Observation had by unanimous decision confirmed Einstein...
...From the earth the full moon covers about half a degree or 1,800 seconds of arc...