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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...locking the barn door that keeps the rain away. Plans have always been worked out to the smallest detail for the eventuality of showers, Sanders Theater prepared, and rain tickets printed. And all--for 27 years--to no avail...
...memoirs should be regarded as a further but redundant demonstration that a policy of sound principle and sober purpose ultimately will prove of more avail than one of protean extremism...
...transition from one-party regime to parliamentary government, was not without incident. Ten Kuomintang dissenters who were under party censure for getting themselves elected as "independents" staged a hunger strike in the gold-&-cream Assembly hall. Cunning officials placed trays of tea, cakes and dumplings before them, to no avail. The "irregulars'" spokesman bought a white coffin with black stripes, threatened to bring it into the Assembly as a token of protest...
...students attempting to purchase a western sandwich at 11:45 o'clock last Thursday night at the Hayes-Bick were curtly informed by the hashslinger on duty that it was "eggless day." A plea from the collegians that they would actually consume the concoction yesterday morning was of no avail...
...statement might well be amended, however, to read that there will be no unemployment for those who avail themselves of the Office's services in bringing applicants together with prospective employers. Teele has been working with some 160 Seniors considerably fewer than the probable number of job-seekers even when deductions are made for those who will go on to graduate schools or who have jobs waiting for them...