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...still more sweeping innovation is the recent transference of the Turkish day of rest to coincide with the Christian Sunday. Previously it came on Friday, and was supposed to be the day on which the first man was born, the day on which he entered paradise, the day of his expulsion, his repentance, his death, and of mankind's future resurrection. Since the Turks have been abstaining from labor on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and the Christians on Sunday, employers in Turkey have long been resigned to only a four-day full-labor week. It is expected that...
Robert Green Ingersoll was born in Dresden, N. Y., in 1833. To awaken faith in God, his father, a Congregational minister, taught him to reason, with the unhappy result that Ingersoll became an agnostic, and all his life continued to champion his faith in no faith. He studied law, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857. In the Civil War he raised a regiment of cavalry, used in his recruiting speeches a natural eloquence unsurpassed in his generation. But it was not until his speech in the Republican Convention of 1876 that he came to national fame...
...Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology told the Academy about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred...
Because he had been born with a superior quickness and accuracy of muscular response, he seemed for a while unbeatable. In 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, he held the title. In 1894 a scorching Irishman named Goodbody beat the speedy Hovey, the rare Hobart, and Larned the Nonpareil, but when he met Wrenn he met his finish. In 1897 a strapping Englishman named Eaves (whose name, people said, was really Heaves), crossed the sea and beat the pride of the States, but Wrenn made him drop games like so many...
...ones and murmurs float above the clatter of the table d'hôte: "There's Oontermeyer!" "There's Bennett!" One afternoon, after the coffee, suggested Poet Markham, a joke went round the company; pencils flashed from waistcoat pockets, and the Child Genius, Nathalia Crane, was born upon the back of a menu-card...