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...upon the Delta parish of Plaquemines, La., and a 35-mile shorefront strip of Mississippi from Pascagoula to Waveland. Both areas remain a jumble of devastation. Hundreds of homes, motels and other business establishments stand roofless or without walls. Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides. Some families are living in tents on their front lawns...
Full well knew he the dangers that were soon to beset him. One man to play at death with a myriad host of others. Ye wise and aged seer Merlin Lautner had clear envisaged for him the pitfalls that would of a surety bestrew his path. The field was full astir with the dread enemy, loud roaring for his pure blue blood. Summoning his last ounce of courage, and calling up for the final time the image of the virgin Lily Maid, he ran the gauntlet with a desperate rush...
Compared with Yale's daily ten-minute quizzes, which bestrew the path of luckless Senior and Freshman alike, the supervision of History 1 notes is innocuous. It is the difference between a helping hand toward good habits and a Sword of Damocles...
...Vagabond straightens up the litter of papers which bestrew his desk, tills his briar with a fresh load of Cake Box and settles back to watch the smoke sail up until the first pale faint pulse of dawn beats into the eastern...
...tempted to linger over the editorials and reviews, for reasons which will become apparent. Under the chastely classical heading of "47 Obitt", the editors bestrew the grave of the Workshop with a few choice pleas and wave the reader on to more extended articles on the subject in the body of the magazine; they further regretfully observe, in the succeeding editorial, that Mrs. Grundy, in the person of the Library authorities, persists in seeing it through. In the department of book reviews, three new books are reviewed at length, and five more are graced with brief notes, always capable...
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