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...multiplication and division of compound fractions. "Find 83 1/3% of 460." Clackety clackety-clackety-clack, went chalk in the fingers of a shrewd urchin. Clack-ety-clack-et . . , but before the blushing adult competitor had finished his third tier of multiplication, the urchin stood triumphantly at ease. It was quicker when you recognized...
...There is more liberty for youth here than in France," declared Madame when asked to compare the American boy and girl with French youth. "And it develops character quicker. The young girl in France is kept in seclusion until her marriage. If I had a daughter, I would raise her in the American fashion. All but smoking--it is wrong for girls. As for night clubs, I think that the modern boy and girl should be crusted. There must be confidence in one's blood...
...Quicker Transportation Leading Value...
Lieutenant-Commander. Richard Byrd declared in regard to this statement, It is foolish for anyone to say that aviation is not valuable. The value of quicker transportation, to mankind cannot be estimated. It will unlike nations and link rural and urban communities more closely. The position of the airplane today is analogous to that of the automobile 15 years ago. There were people then who maintained that the growth of the automobile industry was a very great evil. We do not consider it so, now, however...
...people of Massachusetts have at last acquired the legal right to save as much daylight as befits their needs or whims. The recent decision of the Supreme Court to this effect has been interpreted as help for home rule, as hope for quicker legal action in the future. To the farmer it can only mean getting out of bed earlier in the morning than is his wont, and to the trainmen, a mystifying schedule of changing times which endangers the lives of passengers and others. This was convincingly set forth at the trial of the bill for unconstitutionality...