Word: war
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...pronunciation. This would be very helpful in a class where TIME is used for current events, for if the pupil is uncertain he asks teacher-and who is he to know the correct pronunciation of a Chinese General's name, a Nicaraguan rebel's name, a famed War Minister of France, a potent German financier...
Under their respective constitutions four political units of the United States style themselves Commonwealths: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia and Kentucky. Since the time of the Revolutionary war under four different constitutions the legal title of Penn's Woods has been the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." To be technically correct in speaking of the United States, it should be said the nation consists of 44 States and four Commonwealths...
When, after that war, he followed the career of his father, Dr. John Haven Emerson, he observed that children did grow taller in the springtime. They also took sick with colds, fevers, measles, scarlatina, scarlet fever, chicken-pox?in the springtime...
Latterly, after the World War, when he had established himself as professor of public health administration at Columbia University and as associate editor of the Nation's Health and of the Survey, he made a study of child growth, in localities as scattered as Manhattan, Toronto and Honolulu. He found that under favorable conditions children grew without relation to the seasons of the year; he decided that children who grew lanky & gawky in the spring, grew lanky & gawky because they had fevers...
About 1820, becoming a member of the stock exchange meant an initiation fee of $25. By the end of the Civil War the initiation was $3,000. By 1869 membership was bought at the market price of a seat (there were 1,060 in all). The first year this went into effect the price of seats jumped from $3,000 to $7,500. In 1879 the number of seats was raised to 1,100, as at present. Since then there has been only the vast increase in security values and public participation to account for the rise in seat prices...