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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Truro, Joseph Hunkin studied mathematics and tutored at Cambridge's Gonville & Caius College (pronounced and called "Keys"; the Gonville is usually silent) before he went into the Church. During the War he was chaplain of the 29th Division, British Expeditionary Force, won his Military Cross for working among wounded soldiers at the front after being twice gassed. Shy, bespectacled little Dr. Hunkin later became dean of "Keys," was appointed Bishop of Truro in 1935. His diocese embraces the county of Cornwall, four parishes in Devonshire and the windswept Scilly Isles off Land's End. Year...
...inefficient readers read poorly, Professor Buswell discovered that many of them "vocalized," i. e., moved their lips or otherwise indicated that they were laboriously pronouncing one word at a time instead of taking in several. He tested his subjects with a passage of tongue-twisters. Because tongue-twisters make silent readers as well as lip-movers vocalize, they slowed down the efficient readers more than the inefficient ones. From this test Dr. Buswell concluded that the schools' old oral method of teaching reading was partly responsible for people's bad reading habits...
Although "official Harvard" was silent on the matter, James Fitzgerald, pro tempore president of the Representative Association, last night communicated to the CRIMSON a letter he had received from Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, which tended to refute the accusations...
...store owners and souvenir manufacturers. Forgetting their Princess' national trait of doing things thoroughly, but slowly, thousands of souvenir baby spoons, mugs, cups and porringers had been made, almost all of them marked "January 1938." Days passed with no news from rural Soesdijk Palace before which stood a silent crowd, forbidden by palace officials to shout, or even to stamp their feet to keep warm. Finally with less than 24 hours of January left to make the birthday mugs legitimate, the Princess' Princess was born...
...coast of Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle shots, and at times the sides seemed to pant under the strain. The ice itself seemed alive. Once a section near the Jeannette churned...