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...Navy goat and the game at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, ended in a scoreless tie. A heavy field robbed the game of spectacle. Coach John J. McEwan, Army, former all-American centre, paid tribute to his opponents thus: " The Navy team that was on the field against us to-day is the luckiest Navy team that ever played football...
History demonstrates one fact at least, that in every age a goodly proportion of folk praised the great men of the past but found little of comfort in their to-day and entertained grave forebodings of their to-morrow. In this respect History never fails to repeat itself. Marco Polo in China in the thirteenth century was told that there were "honest" Celestial politicans "a hundred years...
...days 87 pfennigs would buy an Austrian crown, to-day it takes more than a mark to buy a crown. This is not so simple when it is remembered that the mark stands at roughly 80,000 to the dollar and the crown at about 70,000. Accordingly it takes only $12.72 to become a millionaire in German marks and $14.12 in Austrian crowns. (Figures according to the current rate of exchange...
...capitalists of His day," shouted Foster, " crucified Christ because he tried to teach the world. He ran the capitalists out of the temple and they hated him for it. To-day the capitalists don't crucify us for preaching overthrow of their rule. They simply try to send us to jail for ten or fifteen years! The trials at St. Joseph were unique, because we were not charged with favoring any of the doctrines opposed by the syndicalism law of Michigan. We were tried merely for being present at meetings of a party that believes in revolution...
...ancient Egyptian symbol for infinity was a serpent holding his tall in his mouth. It now transpires that the Egyptians had a much better symbol than ours of to-day, which is the complicated and arbitrary figure 8 inverted. For Einstein, and a colleague who comes forth as a second enemy of common sense, Dr. Weyl, have reached the conclusion that infinity is nothing more than a serpent with his tall in his mouth-merely an infinite circle...