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...F.D.R.'s Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace, speaking of critics who thought that pigs should not be killed until full-grown, remarked: "They contended that every little pig has the right to attain before slaughter the full piggishness of his pigness...
...members tried to get into the hall either at the meeting's start or after an adverse vote on ROTC, they would probably either fail or have to use violence to attain their goal...
...impart a good deal of mollusk lore and cold facts under the impressive heading of malacology before getting down to the glories of this volume-82 color plates of some of the world's rarest shells. Polished, arranged, color coordinated and lighted to studio perfection, these examples attain a beauty they never possessed when their original owners were in residence. In vivo, mollusks are apt to be encrusted with organisms and covered with silty residues. Presumably, after "five hundred million years of inspired design," they get a little careless about surface appearances. Fortunately, man, the beholder, is still quite...
...whipped. We've got to be cussed. ... He whipped us, but we needed whipping." This is no simple disciple of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch talking, but a professional football player trying to attain the mystical condition of "upness" or "winning attitude," which, according to American tradition, has to be artificially induced by alternate whippings and strokings from an older...
...help you attain enlightenment is the point of this supplement. To help you, and to warn you of the obstacles facing serious seekers after truth. For not only does our false linear cause and effect way of thinking promote illusion, but people are actively trying to keep you from becoming one with the universe. They try to use you for their own ends, to control you. They use machines to run your life (pg.2). They use newspapers to promote false ways of thinking (pg.3 and the front page of today's Crimson). They have ads to make you do what...