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...Beef casserole? Braised pork? More likely, old dependable ham and eggs. They are too familiar to cause your palate much excitement, but as some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them...
Thus in the undergraduate mind the Bible has passed to an unfortunate oblivion along with Latin grammars and first primers. In a great many cases it is saved from such a fate by the timely, if unpleasant, arrival of divisional requirements. True enough the student is still forced to pore over the carefully worded pages of the Bible, but this time he is able to give it a fair hearing. College, if it teaches anything, teaches a young man to judge of things for himself. If then he finds gold in these pages, where all seemed dross before...
...objection to the daily newspaper is that it is too great a strain on the eyes, and consumes too much time and attention to pore through its endless columns to extract a grain of wheat from mountains of chaff. But TIME does not exhibit a greater discrimination between essential and nonessential facts. Facts that vitally affect the progress of human affairs throughout the world, facts of business and industry, of scientific discovery and achievement, of race and political and religious belief, are half glimpsed or wholly ignored or suppressed...
They fled over the waste world to Doomington. Leah made good ingber (candy) as Serra Golda had taught. Children of English Israel came buying. Soon there was a modest grocery store. Eli, turned carpenter, could pore over his Scriptures late evenings and during the long strikes, still tracking down the far-to-seek revelation of his God. The Lord blessed such piety with a solemn little son, Reuben, content to, learn his catechisms and caress Miriam, his kosher white...
...Then it was noticed that four bronze statuettes had disappeared entirely. Detectives investigated, apprehended a ragpicker and three lads of 15, his Janissaries. This individual, coveting the statuettes, had sent the scalawags to cadge them, instructed them to perpetrate malicious mischief upon The First Man that it might the pore fittingly become his junkshop. A curio dealer named Vialatte had received the stolen properties. All were jailed...