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...spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged. Changeless also is the need that use of these tools should be taught in the elementary schools with utmost simplicity and absolute certainty. Not different is the need-though greatly more difficult the achievement-that the essential contributions of modern science, the principal values...
Both Bear and the 'missus' talk English, and have conversed at length with the Anthropologists concerning their language and customs, but the Linguistic learners have devoted their attention to Bull. Bull dictates long yarns in his native language, while his talented listeners copy it in a phonetic alphabet...
...refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington the Railroad Retirement Act went out as unconstitutional. In Miami Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast to coast the issue was whether Harry Hopkins, playing Santa Claus at the rate of $140,000,000 a month, was corrupting the electorate. On all sides were squabbles, hopes, issues. And then in 48 states men marched to the polls and overwhelmed the New Deal with...
They seem to have forgotten their true function as an opposition party. Instead, they have perched like vultures in the trees of Lafayette Park waiting for the victim to choke on alphabet soup...
...alphabet, decided Artist Katz, should be the main theme of his synagog murals because some of its letters are also names for things. Artist Katz painted the Decalog as follows...