Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremendous steps have been taken in the administration of rural schools. The old one-teacher unit is going as fast as it can be replaced by grad-schools at convenient centers, served by fleets of motor buses. In Weld County, Colo., 26 modern school plants do the work of 85 weak schools. " Eighty warm, comfortable buses transport 2,510 children daily to the well equipped schools where they are taught by trained teachers." So speaks, not Mr. Babbitt, but the United States Department of the Interior. The central schools have auditoriums, community rooms, gymnasiums, athletic fields, libraries, lyceum courses...
Jimmy de Forrest, Firpo's trainer, holds no such illusion. Said be: "Dempsey is entirely too fast for Firpo. I judge that he (Firpo) needs about four months' intensive training before he should even contemplate meeting Jack. Otherwise he will be entering a slaughter house!" (De Forrest trained Dempsey for the Willard fight in Toledo, July 4, 1919. Sporting writers invariably speak respectfully of Jimmy de Forrest...
Meanwhile the honors fell thick and fast. The appointees included Mrs. H. H. Foster for Arkansas, Mrs. Porter Von Cannon for Idaho, Mrs. Emily F. Genssler for Louisiana, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird for Massachusetts, Mrs. Manley Fosseen for Minnesota, Miss Belle B. Boyd for Nevada, Mrs. Mina Otera-Warren for New Mexico, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin for New York, Mrs. John Gordon Battelle for Ohio, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton for Pennsylvania, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell for Virginia...
LITTLE NELLY KELLY?The infinite invention of George M. Cohan has again evolved a musical concoction that has stuck fast in the public fancy. Mr. Cohan, analysts observe, is not so much concerned with the elaborate beauty of his chorus and their silks as he is with his dancers and his humor. Though Nelly Kelly has danced and laughed on Broadway these many months her popularity persists...
Bacteriologists have long used anilin dyes of various colors to " stain " different species of bacteria. The tubercle bacillus does not stain easily, but when it does, it clings tenaciously to the dye, in spite of immersion in alcohol and strong acids, and for this reason is called " acid-fast." Non-acid-fast bacteria (such as the typhoid bacillus) yield readily to the " antibodies" produced by the injection of dead bacteria of the same disease. But the acid-fast germs are encased in or contain fatty cells called " lipoids," which resist digestion when injected into the body and thus generate...