Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test previously unmeasured intangibles on which Progressives set great store, he invented ingenious new tests, using observation of pupils as well as pencil and paper quizzes. Results: Progressive pupils scored higher than those in traditional schools in knowledge of current affairs and people, honesty, cooperation, leadership, ability in creative, writing and art, critical thinking, breadth of interests. Traditional school pupils knew more about rules of health, Progressive pupils were huskier and healthier...
Next month, people who can afford to pay 50? for a magazine and have the time to read 30,000 word "abridgments" will be offered Omnibook, published and edited by Robert Kenneth Straus, New York City Councilman and son of Jesse Isadore Straus, late Macy store tycoon and Ambassador to France. Each Omnibook page will contain four book pages with margins trimmed. Each number will include about 100 pages from each of five books...
...studied a map of a gold mine and said, "Guess I better go to sleep." In the morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store the men of the sheriffs were dragging dead men out of their windows." Tom got away on his faithful horse, Silver. "Suddenly a million Indians rushed at him." He got away again. He got in an other fight, knocked his enemy down, asked "What's that...
...moved lock, stock and barrel, not to mention old-fashioned banjo clocks and row on row of used suits, to 1109 Mass, Ave. Above his now store hangs a neon sign bearing the legend "Max Keezer--College Clothes...
...penthouse room and timidly knock on the door and ask in a small voice if Vag had anything for him. Vag seldom did. And he has nothing for him now except a growing respect for this little man who manages to be so dignified about an undignified business. His store is bare now, and all the stuff has been moved elsewhere--to new a quarters eastward, but still "on the Avenue." Workmen are now changing and rebuilding the front of the old place into something gaudy and shiny. And the warm solemnity of Max Keezer is gone from the Square...