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Because of bicycles, it was said, young people were not spending the time they should with books, and more seriously that suburban and country tours on bicycles were “not infrequently accompanied by seductions.”
Instead of a national debt, there was a surplus of $45 million.
Professor Langley seems to be having rather more than his fair share of trouble just now with the pestiferous reporters and windstorms. But as the mosquitoes are reported to be very bad along the banks where the reporters are encamped he has some consolation.
When the engine was started up with a roar, several small boys who had been tagging along were so startled they took off over the hill as fast as they could go.
They were always thinking of the next thing to do; they didn’t waste much time worrying about the past.
“The best dividends on the labor invested,” they said, “have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.”
“I have done what I know he would have done if he had been here and understood all the facts. In such cases the man at a distance only does harm by trying to give instructions which do not fit the case.”
“A number of women are employed in going about to pounce down on every unsuspecting chap that happens to be occupying a chair and to collect the two cents.”
Most of my time has been spent on things I should not have to do at all. . . .
“This man has conquered the air,”
“The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see the air fleets passing overhead—dripping death, dripping death!”
