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Essay Archive - Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen
The authors of this story, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, describe the protagonist as a tall man, with a large head, jowls, and a Herbert Hoover collar. So, naturally, he is not small slender type; he passed the two-hundred-pound mark a long ago.
Frank Gilbreth, often referred as dad, always practiced what he preached. Some things he did to keep "progress moving" was that he took home videos (called moving pictures back then) of the children washing dishes. He wanted to figure out how his children could red....
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