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...born to trouble, but he somehow never gets used to it. Mendel Singer, Russian Jew, teacher of the Scriptures in the village of Zuchnow, was a harmless kind of fellow, poor like the rest of his neighbors, but with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being...
...Then Mendel's sons grew up to military age. Shemariah escaped over the border, went to the U. S., but Jonas was taken for a soldier. Daughter Miriam grew up too, began to go into the wheatfields with Cossacks. Mendel and his wife, married too long, were sick of the sight of each other. One fine day a letter came from Shemariah: he was doing well in the U. S.. would soon send them money to join him. When the time came they left idiot Menuchim behind with friends. They found Shemariah was indeed doing well...
...They live over their store and are more ambitious than most of their neighbors. They hope some day to be somebodies, to send their fair-haired little daughter and their yet unborn son to college. Just as it seems that the world could not possibly be a better place, Mendel's Law steps up and destroys the lives of Larry and Ruth. Their little son is born black as a boogie...
...Committee of Selection consisted of President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Professor Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale University, Professor Louise Pound of the University of Nebraska, Professor E. B. Wilson of the Harvard School of Public Health and President of the Social Science Research Council, and Professor F. J. E. Woodbridge of Columbia University...
...elements which the late great Russian Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendelèeff (1834-1907) predicates with his Periodic Law, 16 have been discovered since 1894.* Two remain to be isolated-eka-iodine and eka-cesium.† Last week Dr. Fred Allison and Edgar Jackson Murphy of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., reported that they had "evidence of considerable weight for the presence" of eka-cesium in certain salts they had reduced from lepidolite, a form of mica, and pollucite, a mineral consisting chiefly of cesium, aluminum and silicon. When they break down their salts they will get a soft silvery...