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"I had a little aid, last night, sir, from Mr. Anstey." "But you had no aid in the section room today?" "No, sir," replied Dick, feeling much puzzled. "You understand my question, Mr. Prescott?" "I think so, sir." "In putting down your demonstration on the blackboard today you had no aid whatever?" "None whatever, sir." "At one stage, Air.
Balls, blocks, pencils and paper, paste, colored crayons, scissors, a blackboard, a cart, a wheelbarrow, stout little garden tools, a sand tray or, better, in summer an outdoor sandpile, will furnish endless work and endless delight to a child or group of children. It is not so much what sort of material we use as the way in which we use it.
But it was not replaced. When it was gone, Jimmy was presented with a blackboard and boxes of colored chalk. By Christmas every possession was gone replaced the new toys tailored to Jimmy's physical age. There was a Christmas tree, and under it a pile of gay bright boxes. Jimmy had hardly the heart to open them, for he knew what they would contain. He was right.
I could not follow with my eyes the geometrical figures drawn on the blackboard, and my only means of getting a clear idea of them was to make them on a cushion with straight and curved wires, which had bent and pointed ends. I had to carry in my mind, as Mr. Keith says in his report, the lettering of the figures, the hypothesis and conclusion, the construction and the process of the proof.
We was a hundred ahead already, 'cordin' to the blackboard, and was figgerin' what sort of palaces we'd build when we cashed in. "'Ain't no use preachin' a long sermon over the remains. 'Twas a simple funeral and nobody sent flowers. Inside of a month we was cleaned out and the wheat place had gone out of business failed, busted, you understand.
If he had been a student of Tennyson, he might have remembered that the old order is in the habit of changing and yielding place to the new. Mr Seymour looked thoughtfully for a moment at the blackboard. 'That was rather a crude effort, he said pleasantly to Babington, 'you lack finesse. Pick it up again, please. Babington picked it up without protest. Under the rule of the Rev.
In answer to this question, Professor William James of Harvard College, one of the leading authorities on the scientific aspects of psychical phenomena in this country, reports the following experiments: "Make a stroke on a paper or blackboard, and tell the subject it is not there, and he will see nothing but the clean paper or board.
He half blushed in his shy way, but went on writing in this wise, with chalk, upon a small blackboard: 'Thursday Thor's-day Jack the Giant Killer's day'. Then, in one corner of the board, a sun was rising with a merry face and flaming locks, and beneath him was written, 'Phoebus-Apollo'; while in the other corner was a setting moon, 'Lady Cynthia.
Out of the two-and-twenty juveniles present, only about six seemed to be in their proper places. One young gentleman sitting close to the blackboard cried, "Powder, sir!" and straightway scrubbed his neighbour's face with a very chalky duster.
Weller and his friends had scarcely had a moment to reflect upon this singular regulation as connected with the monetary system of the country, when they were rejoined by Pell and Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, who led them to a part of the counter above which was a round blackboard with a large 'W. on it. 'Wot's that for, Sir? inquired Mr.
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