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...sighed. Decidedly, it was going to be another of those days; it had all the ear marks, for it was only 9 A. M. and the mercury had already passed the 84 degree mark, Centigrade, which translated into Fahrenheit means 125 degree, which, in turn; means a Turkish bath sort of existence. For, without undue effort, the temperature will rise to 130 degrees and 135 degrees around noon time, and that is registered in the shade. Those familiar with North Africa will doubtless have noticed how Tittle shade there is to be found per square mile...
...other words, any methods or aids that we have discovered in preparing for examinations, or any help that we can give in pointing out the way to organize a mass of material or to sort the essential from the less important, are offered to those who wish to avail themselves of them. We are not competing with the tutoring schools or attempting to find a way to pass a course with a minimum of work. Indeed, experience has shown that often all a man needs is a little encouragement and a few simple suggestions at a moment when the amount...
...work has always seemed to me, if I be pardoned for what may seem to some a grievous confusion of arts, to partake somewhat of the nature of pictures by Corot and some of the Impressionists. There is in them the same silvery quality of overtone, the same sort of shimmering airiness that is found in the paintings; an almost wraithlike quality with its appeal to the imagination combined with an emotional body of ever-shifting sentiment and passion...
...Bacon bill, now before the House of Representatives, would provide for a separate legislature for the Moro provinces, and thus give them a sort of "home rule...
...paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know. Me, I've got everything-grand kids and a wonderful wife and this...