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...year for TIME. I have done three years in succession, besides paying for six other subscriptions as Christmas presents to friends. I read the magazine with the utmost concentration, trying to fix in my memory, during two hours reading each week, the thousands of facts you furnish me in each issue. The mental effort, time and money I have always considered well invested...
That something turned out to be a man on the roof trying his utmost to tear the red streamer down. With a bellow like a bull's the giant Mura-lov, onetime commander of the Moscow garrison and Trotsky's most devoted follower, elbowed his way through the crowd, scaled the side of the house like a human fly, mounted the roof, caught the offender by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers, carried him to the edge of the roof, and dropped him from a safe height to the ground, where, terrified...
...President's Visit" said: "Pittsburgh grown great, will grow greater. . . . It has the materials. It has the skill. It has the will. . . ." In another editorial it said: "Now let the Pittsburgh public show to the utmost its appreciation of this Pittsburgh Salon-this international exhibition of paintings...
...matter of preparing the quiz is of the utmost importance. The questions on the week's reading must not be given, as it is suspected they have been, merely to disclose whether the student did the reading. Such questions as "Which wife did Henry VIII call a 'Flemish mare'?" are out. Questions must be only on important points. That will emphasize them. The class discussion can then amplify them. The result should be to fix them in the student's memory. It is for the instructor to decide what is important and put it across. The questions on back work...
...work of Dr. Peabody knew no local bounds. He was a leader of his profession, known all over the country while still a comparatively young man. In his fellow physicians he commanded respect and affection; in his patients the utmost confidence; and in students of medicine and young doctors, ardent devotion often close to hero-worship. He filled a high place in the medical world, not only because of his professional skill, but because of the unselfish spirit which lent the crowning light to a naturally charming personality. In the long illness which preceded his death the strength and beauty...