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Recognizing, like the Metropolitan Museum of Manhattan, the compact, grainy beauty of the homes of colonial merchants, militiamen, farmers, Indian fighters, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently began an American Wing. It has removed ten rooms from ten stout New England Houses, among them...
...know what a nuisance are the bedquilt Bank of England notes. Our the smaller bed-size is vastly more convenient. If this were again reduced to postal size,, it would still give space 'for all needed printing and would be much quicker in handling, much more compact in money drawers. and safes and, constantly kept flat, would wear five times as The original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very wasteful of both time and space. Why can't we profit by this experience and make our paper currency...
Thin Legs and Fat Legs trudged the golf hills. Sharp-faced Thin Legs was in his thirties; rubicund Fat Legs in his twenties. Thin Legs the wiry stylist, Fat Legs one of the most compact and well-oiled golfing units in the world. Where they walked, the sun had tarried long and close, until the hills steamed. They had walked, for miles, all others dropping. Thin Legs of Scotland, used to braw winds; Fat Legs of Georgia, fond of sweltering...
...rebellion; while the constitutional question was a mere pretext for economic grievances which gradually became more prominent, until the war was fought out simply to secure control of the railroads. The Jewish or Nordic government had the advantage in financial strength and man-power, but the Negroes were a compact body known as the Solid South and had superior technical skill in working the railroad system. Through this control of communications the Southern party was victorious, and the Negroes won complete control of rail traffic, so that no important train was allowed to start without their representative, and in many...
...rare grace: humility. He wants to tell a good story, but he does not distort the pattern thrt life imposes upon even the most shoddy events. He writes sensationism with an air of having his manner dictated absolutely by his material. His story is as compact as a surgical dressing...