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...Brag or Fight. Robert Hooke was an able, mechanically talented scientist who suffered the misfortune to be a 17th-Century contemporary of the great Isaac ("Falling Apple") Newton. He was embittered by having to live in the shadow of Newton's greater glory. But frustrated Robert Hooke saw, named, described and pictured living cells, and he appears to have been the first to do so. Thereafter numbers of other scientists saw and studied cells.** For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules." Then Hooke...
Says Historian Conklin: "I once heard a distinguished physiologist say that there are two ways to gain recognition, either brag or fight. It seems to me that Schleiden did both...
...director of athletics at Harvard is a fine fellow. He didn't brag last year or the year before, nor is he crying at present. He makes his report and then continues his work...
Neither during the Civil War nor in Reconstruction times were the successes of the Union forces in Texas anything to brag about. In fact, with its post-Civil War collection of desperate Southern aristocrats, filibusterers and assorted bad men, their plots and generally seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast...
...every dollar the Federal Government has received since March 1933, it has spent two dollars. This is an appalling situation. . . . We must put the spenders out. For remember, those who preach spending, practice spending and brag about spending cannot stop spending. This is the lesson of history. That is the record of this Administration. They are proud of their spending. They talk of it as though preserving the financial integrity of the United States were only a game. ... If the Administration wants a baseball analogy, if they want the score-it is easy to give. It is written clear across...