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...Hopkins Origin...
Would you like the origin of the traditional saying about Mark Hopkins and the log [TIME, Oct. 19]? In addressing the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association in Washington, D. C., December 11, 1877, James Abram Garfield said...
...represent the attack of the Giants on Asgard, the home of the Gods, where such a great struggle took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack of Nazidom on the Church. The origin of this fantastic idea is the minute cross-shaped mark, more like a trade mark than a Church symbol, cut in the halberd of one of the Gods. At the right, as yet unfinished, there will be shown a sleeper awakening, standing for the regenerated race of man after the holocaust...
...lascivious king. Even when Henry VIII got tired of Anne Boleyn and decided to have her put to death in order to take the next into his arms, the Archbishop of Canterbury had no objections. ... A considerable part of the property belonging to the present English aristocracy had its origin in the plundering of Church property by Henry VIII who awarded it to secular and ecclesiastical magnates. And now that the descendants of those pillagers cry out about the 'pillage' of Church property [in Soviet Russia] and protest against such 'sacrilege' in the name of religion...
...theory on the origin of the solar system was one of the subjects discussed in a lecture given by Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, at a meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers last Saturday in the Faculty Club...