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...Progressive" Education. '"I cannot reconcile myself to a primary education which equips a child with the Eskimo technique of making a snow-house, but does not teach him how to spell. . . . Man has to earn his intellectual bread by the sweat of his brow. Why should primary education attempt to convert our children into little lotus-eaters...
Forty-one runners doffed their sweat clothes on the Eliot House side of the Anderson Bridge at 3:30 o'clock for the beginning of the race. In the chill fall wind that swept across the river the competitors were sent off in six groups, with the first five having time advantages over the last of six minutes, forty seconds, three minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, ten seconds, and one minute and fifty seconds respectively...
...Russian troops with fixed bayonets. An officer boarded the train and ordered all American bank men to come with him. About a score of us were lined up in "column of twos" and marched into the village between files of soldiers. I must confess to an attack of cold sweat as we marched down the street not knowing our destination but fearing the worst...
...full sun beat pitilessly on the wide, graceful avenue that borders Sicily's Palermo Gulf. Half a mile away on the waters of the Mediterranean many of Italy's finest men-of-war were riding at anchor. Beads of sweat trickled from II Duce's dictatorial brow to the collar of his crisp white suit as he held forth from a 30-foot-high podium to thousands of Sicilians sweltering below...
...fever, or even with 109.8° F. To save the life of a heat victim quick measures are essential. Dan Long got them-ice packs to remove the body heat which his deranged system could not radiate; oxygen for his thickened blood; cold salty water to replace the sweat he had lost. In a few hours record-breaking Dan Long's temperature read a normal...