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...outdoor exercises in 1922 it has never rained on Thursday of Commencement Week. It may be locking the barn door that keeps the rain away, for year after year Sanders Theatre and rain tickets have been prepared for the eventually of showers. And all, for 29 years, to no avail...
...shall stand at the city's gates to keep out any pretenders." A spokesman in Tel Aviv threatened passive resistance: "I don't know if a U.N. governor will find a house to work in. If he does and sets about establishing public services, no one will avail himself of such services." Jordan also objected. Said its Foreign Minister Ruhi Abdulhadi: "Jordan will oppose the execution of whatever is decided contrary to its rightful wishes...
Exeter also boast a capable weight team. Unlike most years, crew has by paused a few of the brawny preschoolers, whom the "Big Red" coach has used to good avail...
...more disturbed by the new words than by the old things they signify, nationalists and lingual purists have long resisted the verbal invasion, to less & less avail. Last week, admitting defeat on the spoken front, a group called the Commission for the Preservation of Spanish launched a last-ditch counteroffensive by invoking a long-dormant law regarding billboards...
...weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces-or why, or how, or when. Scholars have ransacked Easter Island, photographed its relics, cross-questioned its modern natives (there are less than 500)-aii to no avail. It has never seemed possible that the people of a small, barren island 1,100 miles from the nearest inhabited land (Pitcairn Island) should have carved several hundred weighty stone ornaments and lugged them up & over the rim of a volcano. Because of these stone heads, Easter Island has remained...