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...since that first meeting has the field of the Maryland Hunt Cup race in Worthington Valley been so small as it was last week. Some of the best "leppers" in the U. S. were entered, but many were scratched from the post list. Only seven were at the barrier when the starter sent them off into the mist and drizzle. Only one seemed to count. That was Reel Foot. He was running what trainers call a Billy Barton race, a smothering race, pulling away in great bounds at the start with a speed clearly geared to last to the finish...
...asked last week "to contribute his great experience and high authority to a new task as difficult as it is delicate." The task: to arrange coordination between the Ministries of Air, War and Navy in such a way as to provide in war time a complete and rational air barrier around the whole of France...
...this ability of bewitching his readers. When energetic Paul submerged himself in the forests of the Gabon, arm-chair expeditions were hardly conceivable. No white man before him had penetrated beyond the coast, for such obstacles as starvation, wild-beasts, disease and cannibals formed a barrier long considered impregnable. It is but mild praise to say that Du Chaillu's three trips of lengthy duration were successful...
...teachers within this third group seriously attempt to make the examination serve an important developing function in an educational program, they recognize as of primary importance the question of attitudes--attitudes of teachers and pupils alike. They realize that school tradition has too frequently conceived the examination as a barrier to be scaled, a hurdle to be strategically vaulted. Rarely does the school boy or the school girl or the college student, indeed--stop to inquire how examinations in English, or in any other subject, may serve as sequent means whereby added power either in communication or interpretation...
...suit was pending, the Institute has revamped its methods, hoped it would be pardoned. It now claims the practices were resorted to merely to save the industry in 1929. It says: "The decision in this case should be of unusual importance . . . in determining whether these laws are a barrier to proper and necessary co-operation among businessmen in enforcing ethical business practices and in fostering conditions of reasonable business stability...