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...young may also pick up a few ideas from such old-fashioned sources as fairy tales (in Hansel & Gretel, the witch is oven-crisped by a couple of kids), myths (Perseus decapitates a lady who stands in his way), Bible stories (little David gives Goliath a hole in the head...
...Length of biblical (and British) cubit: 18 inches. David's Goliath towered six cubits and a span...
...upset of the week. Twice-beaten Princeton slew Pennsylvania, the Goliath of the Ivy League, 17-14. After the game, elated Princeton rooters tried to carry away the goal posts, and had to be deterred by the cops...
Padrone. Today, although he is technically retired, Amadeo Peter Giannini is still in control of his sprawling Goliath. A widower, he lives with his daughter in the gabled house he built in San Mateo before the earthquake. "She has her guests in," he explains, "and they talk or play cards. I sit in a corner and listen to the radio." Every facet of his business still interests him. "My brain never stops," he says. "I think while I sleep...
...road was also in constant use by two million nomadic savages, who were dead-shots with the kind of sling that David used against Goliath, and who spent their spare time stripping the copper wire off the line of telegraph poles. The nomads explained that they knew all about war: their ancestors had fought a dandy one against the Sumerians in 3000 B.C., and their ruling Khan unfailingly subscribed to the airmail edition of TIME...