Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other such important philosophical problems. These discussions are usually worried along by laymen whose only qualification lies in a facile verbosity. This is not entirely the section man's fault for Philosophy A offers a moderately lucrative training ground while he is studying...
Although timid visitors at Yellowstone National Park have often been scared by bears, they have seldom been harmed by them. Last week Roger W. Toll, Yellowstone's superintendent, announced that he has just exactly the right number of bears in his park. Last fortnight he gave away seven grizzlies and two black bears. He has 160 grizzlies, 450 black bears left. But if this number were allowed to increase, the food supply (berries, roots, garbage can contents) would not be enough to go around. Some of the animals would have to go hungry, might turn on small and tender...
...Pretty! Don't make me laugh!" This from Number Three. "Why, there are more pretty femmes walking down Peachtree Street in Atlanta than there are in all New York...
...Some pretty femmes out there today," the corporal at Number Four ventures...
...Number Two, also a yearling, speaks. A spectator watching him through field glasses would not swear that his lips move...