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...gravitational yank of a passing star, is commonly estimated at 2,000,000,000 years ago. Much of this time was spent cooling, shrinking, solidifying: more than half of it passed before evidence of the first microscopic life was left in the rocks. Five hundred million years ago sponges, jellyfish and worms appeared; fishes 400,000,000 years ago; giant reptiles 150,000,000 years ago. Well within the last 100,000,000 years birds and mammals appeared, and within the last million, man. The dates. Sir James admits, are conjectural but the sequence...
...broad churchmen to air their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ was no sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, called ''The Tame Lion." Bishop Johnson growled about jellyfish and other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts. Let the Church keep the bars up and avoid trouble. Intercommunion would ''make the Episcopal household of faith a cafeteria." Said he: "If such practices are persisted in, I should feel it my duty as a bishop to banish...
...Eddie Dowling presently gave her a job in Honeymoon Lane. Singer Smith had barely had time to continue her musicomedy career in Hit the Deck, Flying High, when Fleischmann's Yeast put her on the radio which concealed the comical incongruity between her strong, low sentimental voice and her jellyfish physique...
...primary campaign Candidate Todd advanced a scheme for increased U. S. income and excess profits taxes to be prorated among the States as a substitute for local and municipal taxes. Candidate Hull flayed this plan as "fantastic," was called a "jellyfish" by his opponent. Congressman Hull won the senatorial nomination two-to-one, should have small difficulty defeating Paul E. Divine, Johnson City attorney, Republican nominee, in the November election. Governor Henry Hollis Horton, as "the man who pulled Tennessee out of the mud" was given Democratic renomination over L. E. Gwinn. Memphis attorney who complained that Negroes "in droves...
...King of the Sea who had given him the magic fish. When he remembered, gold, silver and pearls were not enough and Sadko had to sacrifice himself. In the sea, the grisly King would have chastised him but Volkhova intervened. She and Sadko married, with undines, lobsters, jellyfish and whales for guests. During the dancing which followed, the old king worked himself into a frenzy, called down everlasting grief upon all ships and men. But St. Nicholas, a legendary hero, saved Novgorod and stripped the King of power. Volkhova was transformed into a shining river; Sadko returned home, a hero...