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...Horrid to many a small boy was a proposal made last week by Director Edward P. Smith, of New York State's summer high schools. Let public schools be open the year round, said he, instead of on the present schedule of forty weeks or less. "Our forty-week year dates from the time when we were an agricultural people, when pupils were needed for harvesting crops. We have exactly the reverse of that condition...
...receive his lawyer-friend John H. Clarke, onetime (1916-24) Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. They talked League of Nations, World Court, peace movements, until Mr. Clarke could be shown Grandson McGean. Mr. Clarke gave favorable judgment. . . . After supper, read Mother India by Katherine Mayo, about horrid conditions in a backward society. ... To bed at 10:30 o'clock...
Bent, his withered left arm hanging loosely by his side, the fallen All Highest went on: "While ministers with olive branches in their hands are discussing peace, I see jealousy among the nations steadily increasing. New experiments are made with U-boats, torpedoes, ex- plosives and horrid gases, and secret discussions are carried on on the employment of poisonous gas on the oceans. Besides transocean flights, secret duration flights are made by planes heavily loaded with bombshells, so that one must consider the possibility of being at- tacked suddenly...
...light fog clung to the flat, glassy sea between Ambrose Light and Fire Island, N. Y. Captain Maurice Aubert had just ordered a change in course, and for a horrid second, thought he had run aground when the France, with nothing but a limpid swell around her, listed with violent suddenness. Captain Aubert remembered his soundings of a moment before and knew the France could not possibly have touched bottom. This flash of certainty was verified as the ship's sudden list reversed itself, became a sharp roll. Looking overside, Captain Aubert beheld the sea in a cold boil...
Something of the horrid dismay their clients must have felt in the face of such fatal flippancy was reflected in the renewed efforts of Lawyer Hill and associates last week...