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...exceeds all giants in Medical History, Dr. Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...week concert of the Atwater Kent Co., Philadelphia, on Dec. 27. A curtain was held and the audience waited uneasily between the first and second acts of Herodiade at the Chicago Auditorium while call boys went to tell William Beck, baritone, that it was time to go on as Vitellius. Baritone Beck was not to be found in his dressing room. A messenger hurried to his hotel, found the baritone lying in bed. He was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gershwin | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...rumored in Chicago that the recent explosion in C - e H - e unearthed two new species, the "hard grind" and the "regular grind." Someone who reads this may call this a "grind," but it is not, it is not even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind. It is even said that the elder Pliny wore glasses. There is an old legend which is to-day told in one of the Swiss villages among the Alps, to the effect that the great Julius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grinds. | 11/30/1885 | See Source »

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