Word: midases
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The Significance. It remained for a Frenchman, a world-wide knockabout himself, to resurrect this California Midas whom our swarming old-Americana hunters have overlooked. Perhaps Sutter was put from memory for conscience's sake, but now he is back, a mighty, marvelous, golden ghost. Author Cendrars's...
"History is what men have tacitly agreed shall be the truth." So commented a recent critic, and doubtless the scribe's Midas-fingers do convert much tinsel into gold. Yet, occasionally, there is no need for alchemy. James Amps, for many years closely associated with Theodore Roosevelt as butler...
Here is a new temptation to solve the old problem of alchemy?how to make gold. Here is the 80th electron of a mercury atom revolving around its nucleus, much like a planet around the sun, waiting to be knocked off and leave the precious old Midas-metal in the...
The Author. Stephen McKenna is an English bachelor, a graduate of Oxford. He has traveled a great deal, and was in the Intelligence Section, War Trade Intelligence Department, during the War. He was a member of the Balfour Mission to the U. S., 1917. His best-known works are Sonia...
In the good old days, according to Mr. Bronk a class in Caesar took great interest in making wooden models of Caesar's bridges. To try such a thing today would only call forth a laugh, mainly because it would be such a waste of time." And therein lies the...