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...future five-foot shelf, it appears, may be no bulkier than a pack of playing cards...
...liberal' education is directly opposed to all that democratic countries cherish as freedom. The idea that an adequate education of any kind can be obtained by means of a miscellaneous assortment of a hundred books, more or less, is laughable when viewed practically. A five-foot bookshelf for adults, to be read, reread, and digested at leisure throughout a lifetime, is one thing. Crowded into four years and dealt out in fixed doses, it is quite another thing. In theory and basic aim, however, it is not funny. For it marks a departure from what is sound...
...said and swung his snorting machine around. He went around to another side of the cave and dipped his blade into the earth. This time he found soft dirt. He scooped bladeful after bladeful against the mouth of the cave until it was blocked with at least a five-foot thickness of earth. It all ended there. It was not very satisfactory because we never found out what was in the hole. Maybe some day somebody will dig into this piece of earth, and into hundreds of similar pieces of earth on Saipan, and find some answers...
...truck a soldier-hackney handed passengers a five-foot piece of two-by-four. Said he: "Here's the bell-bash on the back of the driver's compartment when you want to get off." They did. On another, the driver yelled an invitation to get aboard: "Come on, come...
Escaped: Two of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s steers; from the Rockefeller estate in Mount Pleasant, N.Y. The pair cleared a five-foot fence. Next day one was still at large in the countryside; the other was bulldogged after he darted into a ball game, tossed two would-be captors, and tried to gore an automobile...