"56" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his Board of School Inspectors, made a very careful investigation as to the matter of retardation in the schools of that city. You may be surprised to learn some of the results. He found more than one-half, exactly 56%, of all the children in the schools at least one year behind normal grade, and many of them much more than one year behind. To be exact: 12,672 children were below grade. Of these, 6,328 were one year behind; ...
— On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd
... tropics we had a pleasant voyage and fair winds until we rounded the Cape, where we encountered some rough weather, and at 56 deg. S.L., it being then almost winter in those latitudes, we passed many icebergs of more or less extent. Few of them appeared to be more than ten or fifteen feet above water, but the greater portion of such blocks are submerged, and considerable caution ...
— Five Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864 • Robert B. Booth
... the existence of the ministry which had conducted it. A singularly rapid succession of new administrations ensued—so rapid that the negotiations for peace which the first, that of Lord Rockingham, opened, were not formally completed till the third,[56] known as the Coalition Ministry, was on the point of dismissal. It would be beside our purpose to enter into the details of the treaty which constituted the United States, as they were now called, a nation by our formal recognition of their independence. ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge
... 56. Qu. Whether small gains be not the way to great profit? And if our tradesmen are beggars, whether they may ...
— The Querist • George Berkeley
... for more than a few days, when the animal is again observed to present a dull and dejected appearance, and on examination well-marked symptoms are found; the skin is hot, the temperature more or less elevated—101.7 deg. to 104 deg. F.; the pulse full and frequent—56 to 64 beats a minute; the visible mucous membranes may appear clean, but the conjunctival membranes, especially those covering the membrana nictitans, are usually the seat of dark-red patches of ecchymosis, varying in size in different animals. There is more or less thirst and ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
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