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...bloodthirsty. They liked to drink the warm blood of animals they killed, as you would a glass of milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child's History of the World. Said he: ". . . There is plenty of other...
That there is need for some such system of instruction is demonstrated by the findings of the recent survey which discovered that almost 25 percent of the men and women in the prissons are illiterate, and so many as 75 per cent have never advanced beyond the sixth grade...
...classroom holiday to permit research and study) and a comprehensive final examination in every course; abolition of half-year courses; requirement that four out of five courses must be passed every year, that during the four years six courses out of the total 20 must be passed with a grade of 275 (corresponding to 75% in other colleges...
...physically fit, instead of old and heavy and stiff, I should myself ask to go under you in any capacity down to and including a sergeant; but I suppose I could not do work you would consider worth while in the fighting line (my only line) in a lower grade than brigade commander...
...ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif. As high-school students during the War they had "ham" (amateur) radio stations in their houses, would shout excitedly across the street to verify what signals they could pick up. Both boys entered Stanford University where Franklin's father, Professor Edward Curtis Franklin...