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...uranium mining and processing is a hot and dirty job which promises few big bonanzas. "In most eight-hour days," says one prospector, "it just isn't possible to recover enough high-grade ore to pay your expenses. Maybe after you have moved 75 tons of rock your vein peters out and you have to drill around and start a new shaft. Then, after days of back-breaking work and futile drilling and blasting, you hit a pocket and in a few hours you take out enough to pay expenses for quite a while...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittelholzer...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittel-holzer...
...fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample; "Our church is over the brow of yonder eminence...
...Gibbon preserves what has kept best in Gibbon: his sly wit, his stately prose rhythms, his knack for making the mummies of history sit up on the printed page and kick off their wrappings, and his intoxication with the grandeur of Rome. Not a philosopher of history in the vein of Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin, but a true son of the Age of Reason, Gibbon blamed Rome's downfall on the "triumph of barbarism and religion."* His dim view of Christianity shocked his own and successive generations...