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...Once I collected definitions of education by great writers and others. It made a thick folder . . . beautifully sentimental. The safest generalization is that education is what we want to do to children, or to have done to them for us, which would make them more like us than they otherwise would...
...psychological. Said sage Dr. DeLee, a bachelor who has brought some 8,000 into the world with his own hands and supervised the deliveries of 100,000 more: "It is not illogical to assume that the conditions of the mind affect the muscles active in childbirth. The best and safest aid to mothers will come when the obstetrician learns how to use suggestion. On occasion I have given a woman small doses of an innocuous substance, assuring her in doing so that the substance would put her to sleep. In such instances the woman actually did go to sleep, pure...
Last week Ernest R. ("Pop") Haselwood looked like a good bet against the field. Bus Transportation, McGraw-Hill trade journal, was tabulating returns in its contest, not to be decided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U. S. Owen Meredith of Enid. Okla. drove 976,800 miles without scratching a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedalia, Mo. turned up with a no-accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood of Chappell, Neb. in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a ''chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood...
...consider the credit of the U. S. Government unsurpassed by that of any other nation of the world; and so we consider the bonds of our Government the safest investment that can be made. . . . They are more certain than any other bond to be paid in full at maturity. They have a past record of greater salability in times of emergency than any other security. ... A marked strengthening of money rates might tend to affect unfavorably the market price of securities of all kinds, but I anticipate no great trend in this direction in the near future...
...each, receiving these over the counter in a steady yellow stream, tucking them into satchels and quietly dispersing. Not rich folk, most of the French gold buyers were humble but trusted representatives of town and village groups or syndicates who felt that temporarily their money would be safest in gold, knew their rights. Since the village innkeeper in France is usually a person of respect and trust, many an innkeeper was in Paris last week buying gold for thrifty peasants who are far from being hicks. Over the panic period stanchly faced by France, her Bank, with So billion francs...