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...American custom, the avoidance of igniting three cigarettes with one match, is attributed by Professor Tozzer to two possible sources. According to one belief, the Roer sharpshooters are responsible for this eccentricity. In 1900, the British "Tommics" discovered that two cigarettes might be lighted on one fuse but that if time was taken for a third, latalities followed...
...stands emphatically not for the prowess of the individual, but for the ability of the team, that the game is founded on the perfect functioning of a machine in which the individual player is submerged, that the success of a team depends on the ability of eleven men to fuse themselves, mind and muscle, into a unit for a struggle with another group of eleven men who also strive not for personal glory, but for co-operative success. This dinner supports an entirely different thesis. It hoists the individual into the limelight and ignores the other...
...that "his temperament is by nature fearless." It was told again how, when he was an editor in Milan, he used to keep several bombs and hand grenades upon his desk, in case his political enemies should attack him. Once, while writing an editorial, he set fire to the fuse of one of these bombs by accidentally resting his cigaret upon it. An assistant noticed the smouldering fuse, screamed. Looking up, Editor Mussolini snuffed it out with his fingers, continued the writing of his editorial...
...seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting a heat mine with time fuse, rowing away to observe results...
...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 the Kemalists, haying coerced their own people, will also attempt to fuse the Jews into conformity with the Christian Sunday...