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...Protests were submitted against the atrocities-atrocities unheard of in any civilized or even uncivilized government-but all the protests voiced by Moslem countries and all the Moslem world remain unheeded. Indeed, they are. disregarded in such a manner as to constitute an insult to all Moslems. A Moslem cannot let himself be insulted or disgraced. Consequently a jihad has become imperative, the duty falling on every Moslem to sacrifice either himself or money. The jihad is intended to save holy Moslem Palestine from people who are playing with its destiny...
...chemist thrust a few drops of an extract from rice hulls between the child's lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life by means of a strange, almost unheard-of ingredient of food, a substance which in its impure state came to be called vitamin B (for beri-beri). At once he decided what course he would follow in the years ahead...
...Frank Wykoff. Since 1928 he has been renowned for his record-breaking pole vaulters, most sensational of whom were the "Trojan Twins," Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, who wound up their college careers last year by breaking the world record with identical vaults three times, once at the unheard of height...
...Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited with some Jewish blood. Kulturkammer authorities got around this difficulty by officially "Aryanizing" Bizet. Although music by such Jewish composers as Mendelssohn, Mahler. Meyerbeer is now unheard in Germany, German publishing houses go on publishing it for export, and do a pretty good business...
...acquired, declared that no real-life Casey existed. But baseball fans down the decades have had to invent not one but many. Up Boston way, they were sure Casey was King Kelly, the Babe Ruth of the '80s, whom the Boston National League club had bought for the unheard of price of $10,000 from the White Stockings in 1887. Almost every community had its Casey and announced it in the public prints...