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... Reading , to use the si to make only such requirem ably be expected to fall wit comprehension of the pupil . Treatment of Home Geo laid down above , under " I tion " have been rigidly ac space has been given to " than in any other Ameri ...
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... Reading " and the " Suggestions for Additional Work . " It is not expected that any class will do all the work provided , but enough should be selected from the variety of exercises presented to impress the pupils with the fact that ...
... Reading " and the " Suggestions for Additional Work . " It is not expected that any class will do all the work provided , but enough should be selected from the variety of exercises presented to impress the pupils with the fact that ...
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... Reading , to use the simplest language and to make only such requirements as may reason- ably be expected to fall within the experience or comprehension of the pupil . Treatment of Home Geography . The theses laid down above , under ...
... Reading , to use the simplest language and to make only such requirements as may reason- ably be expected to fall within the experience or comprehension of the pupil . Treatment of Home Geography . The theses laid down above , under ...
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... Reading " and the " Suggestions for Additional Work . " It is not expected that any class will do all the work provided , but enough should be selected from the variety of exercises presented to impress the pupils with the fact that ...
... Reading " and the " Suggestions for Additional Work . " It is not expected that any class will do all the work provided , but enough should be selected from the variety of exercises presented to impress the pupils with the fact that ...
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... READING . Chamberlain : How We Are Fed ; How We Are Clothed ; How We Are Sheltered . Carpenter : How the World is Fed ; How the World is Housed ; How the World is Clothed . Reynolds : How Man Conquered Nature . Murché : Science Read ...
... READING . Chamberlain : How We Are Fed ; How We Are Clothed ; How We Are Sheltered . Carpenter : How the World is Fed ; How the World is Housed ; How the World is Clothed . Reynolds : How Man Conquered Nature . Murché : Science Read ...
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Africa Alaska animals Arctic Arctic Circle Arctic Ocean Argentina Asia Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria-Hungary Brazil British building built called Canada Canal capital carried cattle Central chief city climate clothing coal cold colonies continent corn cotton crops earth east eastern Empire Eurasia Europe exports factories farming FIGURE fish forests fruits Geography German Empire globe grain Gulf hills Indians industries iron islands Isthmus of Panama Lake land largest leading live Longitude lumber manufacturing Mexico minerals mines Mississippi moun mountains Name nearly North northern ocean Pacific Pacific Ocean Panama plants plateau Pole population race railroads rain regions River rock Russia salt sheep ships slopes soil South America southern Spain Square Miles Strait streams SUPPLEMENTARY READING surface tains trade trees TROPIC OF CANCER Tropic of Capricorn tropical United valleys western wheat York Zone
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Page 71 - Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.
Page 260 - This is an enormous figure cut out of the solid rock, having the head of a woman and the body of a lion.
Page 76 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 90 - A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water is called a strait.
Page 101 - They crossed the Rocky Mountains and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, thus gaining a foothold in the extreme Northwest.
Page 274 - Compare the cotton crop of the United States with that of the rest of the world.
Page 212 - Germany vast amounts of it are found a few feet below the surface of the ground in the northern part of the country.
Page 36 - An island is a body of land completely surrounded by water" and "A mountain is a high elevation of land composed mainly of rock." We struggled through, "Ponds and lakes are bodies of water that occupy depressions in the land." Whatever depressions in the land might be, it was beyond us to fathom ; but woe engulfed us if we could not tell that lakes occupied them. We sometimes had ten or more of these definitions in one day, and some of us were "kept in...
Page 61 - ... the right hand toward the east, and the left hand toward the west. The Making and Reading of Maps.