Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not read a word, even in their own language; there are many others who are classed as illiterate because their native script or letters are different from ours and who therefore find the English language unintelligible. When we consider the half-illiterates, those who are scarcely able to sign their name or decipher words--and our unschooled negro and white population, we have the alarming total of more than 25 million, or one quarter of our entire population, who can contribute little or nothing to our national life...
...estimated that seventy percent of industrial accidents happen to persons requiring an interpreter in filing their claims, many of whom are unable to read a danger signal or safety sign; $250,000 is reckoned as the daily cost of these accidents. In the draft, nearly one-third of the picked manhood of the country was ineligible for service due to incapacity to understand the most elementary instruction...
...University has retained the services of Mr. Harry Cowles, coach of the Harvard Club, who has been coaching teams A and B of the University, to give instruction in squash racquets to any member of the University free of charge. Men may sign up for half hour lessons between 2 and 4 on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons until the end of March...
...fault, but this same fellow the next year will have changed his opinion. He made clear that Yale students had to work about as hard as any others; not more, and not less, but one thing was emphasized in particular, namely that a Freshman did not have to definitely sign off for one course or the other until the end of the year. He repeated the statement that there was no ground for moral and athletic rumors, and after another humorous anecdote, concluded the meeting. The Phillipian...