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When the expedition arrived in Manhattan last week, eleven days and 2,000 miles after it had started, Lincoln School began to reckon the results. The editors of the student paper, impressed with the co-operative stores they had seen at Norris, prepared to campaign for a co-operative lunchroom. But when Lincoln's teachers tallied up the scores on attitude tests given the students before and after the trip, one thing that $9,100 of Sloan money had bought amazed them. Most of the class had been in favor of Government planning when they set out, and were...
...reckon you can't make this saciety any Stag affair. Your Aunt Sarah says she don't like no stag ideas neither so that...
...Gamma. Devil-may-care as ever, he spurned any such oxygen suit as Wiley Post wore, merely bundled up warmly, stuck an oxygen tube in his mouth. Says he: "I don't know what it may do to me eventually. Doctors say it may kill me, but I reckon not. I have to build up to each flight by drinking lots of milk and sleeping long hours and when I get down I have bloody noses and bad attacks of boils for a week or so. But they...
Already bothered by the growing ability of air mail to do for 6? what a night letter does for 60f, the telegraph companies had to reckon with long distance telephone rates now halved, for example, between Chicago and New York. Their response was to work out with the delighted FCC a new scale of night rates embodying the principle of graduated volume discounts which Western Union's dour Vice President John Calvin Willever (TIME, Nov. 2) has long yearned to extend to every type of telegram. Effective June i, the ten-word night message and 50-word night letter...
...down. Squire Whiting was getting ready to turn over the county to his successor, but he wanted things shipshape, so he rode out to Hoop Pole Ridge and shot Little Bas. The inhabitants of the Ridge let Little Bas lie. Said one of them to the heir apparent, "I reckon you air the he-coon, now?" "Yep," said...