Twenty-four has 3 syllables.
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| 1. | Thomas A. Edison so loves his work that he sleeps an average of less than four hours of each twenty-four. | |
| 2. | Twenty-four percent of the people in group one [men born between 1960 to 1964], almost one-in-four, didn't work because they were in prison. | |
| 3. | Bears also tend to sleep more during the day than at night, although in the summer, with twenty-four hours of light, this does not apply. | |
| 4. | A day has twenty-four hours. | |
| 5. | This room is twelve feet by twenty-four feet. | |
| 6. | Our school has twenty-four classes in all. | |
| 7. | The new jet circles the globe in twenty-four hours. | |
| 8. | We have twenty-four chairs in this class-room. | |
| 9. | There are twenty-four hours in a day. | |
| 10. | There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. |