Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vambery, a book collector, who got it from Irme Havasi, a bookkeeper who inherited it from a great granduncle, servant in the house of Count Esterházy at Zélesz (Hungary). There the shy, round Schubert used to go to teach young Caroline Esterházy. He left his manuscript one day and Great Granduncle Havasi stole it, left it when he died as his legacy. Last year the Columbia Phonograph Co. offered $1,000 for the Gastein's return, deposited it with the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. Vienna has it now. Judges will...
When William Kissam Vanderbilt sailed on his yacht Ara, a fortnight ago, on his first cruise around the world, he left behind a yacht-building orgy. More and bigger yachts are now being designed and built for U. S. tycoons than ever before. Herewith, the list with name of tycoon, cost of yacht, architect, builder...
Brilliant and useful is Dr. Bergius' feat. Brilliant and useful too is another U. S. method of making artificial coal. Instead of throwing away the thick refuse oil left in refinery stills, it is heated in tubes several thousand feet long. This heating produces some vaporized, oil. The residue cools into shapeless blocks of bituminous coal, which can be processed just like natural soft coal...
...Phylacteries (little leather boxes), which are worn during certain prayers, one on the left arm, the other on the forehead, by Orthodox Jews in obedience to Deuteronomy, XI, 18: "Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." Among other scriptural writings contained in the tvillim are these: "This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt" (Exodus, XIII, 6), and "What nation is there so great, that hath...
...father was overseer at Oak Ridge, owned then by a Mr. Rives. Thomas Ryan, like his father, was a laborer at Oak Ridge; but when he left, he said to his employer, "I will come back to buy you out," and later...