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...Princetonians, like the Crimson, have had only schoolboy opposition confronting them in their four straight triumphs. They have defeated Atlantic City High, Morristown School, and Peddie School, the latter sextet on two occasions...
Mathematics, the schoolboy's horror, is perking up again after a long sabbatical in the educational doghouse. During the '30s the proportion of high-school pupils taking math dropped a third in six years, and many an educator dismissed algebra, to the vast relief of pupils, as a useless subject. But last week there were signs aplenty that U.S. schools were returning to the view that there is much to be said for the third...
...Roosevelt gripped the reading clerk's stand, flipped open his black, loose-leaf schoolboy's notebook. He took a long, steady look at the Congress and the battery of floodlights, and began to read...
Curtiss-Wright took its old reliable P36 (the British Mohawk), arbitrarily gave its performance a figure of 100%, went on from there. Since the British have announced P-36's performance (323 m.p.h. at 15,100 feet, a service ceiling* of 32,800 feet), any schoolboy could figure what the new P-405 would...
...ranted against Herr Roosevelt ("I have no brain trust to subordinate. ... I am not a schoolboy who draws maps in a school atlas. ... I am now 52 years old . . . and it does not interest me what kinds of religion there are in the world"). He ranted against Herr Churchill ("the crazy drunkard who for years now has been ruling England"). He ranted against Herr Stalin with the most superb illogic ("nothing but an instrument in the hand of almighty Jewry ... a second Genghis Khan"). The more he ranted the more pathologically insecure did Adolf Hitler sound. He puffed with outraged...