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Only two sons of Abraham, traveling, idol-smashing Hebrew, became famed??? Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac, son of Sarah, Abraham's half-sister by another mother, was the younger. He became the ancestor of the Israelites (of whom the Jews are the professedly sole remnants). Ishmael, born of Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was the elder. After Sarah's jealousy nagged Abraham into driving Hagar and her Ishmael into the wilderness, Ishmael became an archer, married an Egyptian girl, begot twelve sons who became ancestors of the Nomad tribes around Palestine from whom the Arabians are descended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Festival of Sacrifice | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...during their meetings, doctors rode up and down Palmer House elevators without let. Attendants who padded outside the hotel's Red Lacquer Room where the doctors met, might have been scandalized by the medical damnation that sounded through the doors. They knew that some of the conferring doctors were famed???Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, Dr. William James Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. They did not know that the emphatic doctors were enjoying themselves, giving a sound thrashing to other members of their profession. The doctors knew that their advice was good; they knew too that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrashing | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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