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Just as interesting are the scores of engineering notions that somehow didn't get generally adopted, e.g., Uriah Smith's idea, back in 1900, of camouflaging cars with imitation horse heads, so as not to frighten real horses coming the other way. Then there was the Carter Twin-Engine car (price: $5,000), a forerunner, in a way, of the twin-engine airplane: if one motor conked out, the driver could still get home on the other...
...roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said: "Is not this Bath-Sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" . . . And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah . . . saying: "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten...
...retelling the famous Bible story of how David lusted after the beautiful Bathsheba (Pamela Kellino, Actor Mason's wife), seduced her, and then sent her husband Uriah to be killed in battle, Playwright Deval has altered the intense black-&-white of its morality to a sleek Gallic grey. His David is both an evildoer and a decent-minded worldling. Having wronged Uriah, he afterwards tries to set things as right as possible...
...Uriah is a disconcerting, fair-haired innocent-a rigidly idealistic young soldier who takes noble vows and blindly worships his king. David finally concludes that death for Uriah would be infinitely less tragic than disillusionment and marital dishonor...
...average undergraduate, the business manager of the University is a combination of March 15th and a finance company, with added shades of Uriah Heep. In the case of the present business manager, this picture is not accurate and less than fair. For in a postwar confusion that has the veteran student in a tight economic squeeze, Aldrich Durant is forced to voice, administer, and often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation...