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...easiest method possible. As few men consider them means toward linguistic attainment as actually learn one to say nothing of two language because of their imposition. A change to a requirement of only one language to be met through a thorough written and oral examination or by a satisfactory grade in a course as advanced as French 6 or German 2, would give the brilliant student something to absorb his attention, and the weak student an intelligible goal worthy of his efforts...
...contain a sufficient proportion of protein and gluten. This effect has been wrought by the post War shortage of man power on the farms, which has induced land owners to plant a species of wheat seeds giving a greater harvest with less care, but an inferior grade of wheat. For this reason the Grands Moulins de Paris bought 10,000,000 bushels of prime U. S. wheat for milling, last year, and are placing still heavier orders at present...
...Winston '30 has been playing a high grade of golf during his practice matches at the Belmout Country Club this week...
...very rich men are among the 1,100 Stock Exchange members. But they are not active traders. The work is too mechanical for them to dissipate their wits on. They consider floor brokers as only high grade machines, who merely buy and sell securities upon orders. The real thinking is done at their offices, in smoky "customers' rooms," over the cocktails of big speculators. Some day machines activated by perforated and notched discs may do the trading on stock exchanges...
...hard and died young, when his son was 13. The mother, whose maiden name was Mulvehill and who also was born in New York, had seen to it that the boy went to a parochial school. At the father's death, he left school, having reached the eighth grade. Beside his mother he had a sister, two years his junior, to support. He earned $15 per week as a checker in the Fulton Fish Market. His mother covered umbrellas to help out. He checked fish for seven years, then worked in a Brooklyn pumping station...