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...examples is no accident; 35% of Exposition's output last year was poetry.) Happy customers and favorable reviews are quoted, successful promotions of the firm's books are played up. By pamphlet's end, a writer hungry for the heady sight of print is very apt to start wondering where he can borrow the cash to pay for the first installment...
...chairmanship of faculty meetings, is able to guide the University on its long-range policies. To the undergraduates who question Conant's lack of knowledge on such projects as parietal rules and student porters, a remark he once made to a dean of another college furnisher an apt answer. "I couldn't get into the housekeeping details even if I wanted to. I just have time to look after the dollars and the professors...
...buckled on the breastplates of pageantry. The occasion was the traditional Trooping the Color in honor of Elizabeth II's 26th birthday. Actually, she became 26 last April 21, but like her December-born father agreed to celebrate in June so that her subjects would be more apt to have a sunny holiday...
...know about Alexander Graham Bell, Gandhi and the U.N. In time, he read Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows Up, learned the Gettysburg Address, and Mrs. Vining "entertained hopes that some day at a diplomatic dinner, he would be able to dazzle the American Ambassador by an apt quotation." By the time Mrs. Vining's four years were up, the Prince was reading Pilgrim's Progress, could chatter away fluently...
...Chambers, a commercial artist who never wanted children, left his wife and two sons for some years-and gave them a living allowance of $8 a week. Even after he came back to his family, he seldom spoke except to quarrel with his mother-in-law, who was apt to roam the house brandishing a butcher's knife...