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...real life most computations involve numbers under 100, 2) pupils can spend their time more profitably checking simpler computations, learning how to trace and correct their errors, 3) they need to learn the principle of "approximation": i.e., that perfect accuracy in any measurement is an unattainable ideal. Heaviest charge modern teachers lay against traditional math teaching is that its artificial exercises fail to teach pupils how to solve practical problems...
...Millions of our soldiers stand after a year of the heaviest battles against an enemy who is superior in numbers and material on the front...
...with all transport agencies overburdened, the rails may gain some immediate advantage from an increase. It will nevertheless cost them traffic later. A blanket increase falls heaviest on high-grade, high-rate freight and on long-distance shippers. The former is the most vulnerable part of railroad business, is best adapted to shipping by truck. The latter are the prime movers in a long-term threat to the railroads: the decentralization of industry toward its supply sources and markets, U.S. regional integration...
Perhaps more important than the loss of ships was damage to the naval base, some of whose oil depots may have gone up in flames. Heaviest military toll was at Hickam Field, where hundreds were killed and injured when bombs hit the great barracks and bombs were reported to have destroyed several hangars full of planes...
...lesson Brigadier Wilson learned and preaches is that this war is different from the war he fought in 23 years ago. This time there is a new accent on plenitude of equipment (which the B.E.F. in World War II did not have). But to Soldier Wilson the heaviest accent is still where it always was: on high morale and painstaking training. With these two weapons, a well-equipped outfit has little to worry about, come Stukas or high water...