Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next in rapid succession, came second grade reading, reading for the primer tots, third grade reading, fourth grade arithmetic, sixth grade arithmetic (long division seventh grade arithmetic. Lest classes fall behind schedule, Miss Campbell did most of the talking, prodded her pupils to hurry By day's end, Miss Campbell had taught her classes reading, writing, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, history, science. Total amount of instruction for each grade: 50 minutes...
...York City's smart little ex-Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, wrote his second song in 25 years (the first: Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?). Excerpts from In Our Little Part of Town...
Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...
...House sports program will start its winter season in full stride this week, with basketball, squash, and hockey opening their schedules, and indoor baseball going into its second week...
...tenure question has not been blazing any headlines of late, and the lack of concrete news has produced the impression that the whole problem has been permanently disposed of. Actually the controversy has merely proceeded into a second stage whose outcome will be as Harvard-shaking as that of the first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow...