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...Times are changed with him who marries," quoth Robert Louis Stevenson. There are no more bypath meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Harvard's Terms of Engagement | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

...Carl Lyngholm, 17, reads elementary Russian, plays first clarinet in the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra, and likes most subjects at San Diego high school except something called "basic citizenship." He won third prize ($5,000) for a study of an exotic mathematical bypath, Boolean algebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Winners | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...diverticulum (Latin for a small bypath) of the large bowel is a little pouch or sac formed by pressure inside the gut, forcing the inner layer (mucosa) through a weak spot in the outer, muscular layers. It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Little Bypaths | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: "Yeats's father once confided to my father: 'Willie has found a very profitable little bypath in poetry'; and this was fair enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Graves & Scholars | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...child, and had been the Third Republic's last Minister of the Interior. He had fled to Morocco after the 1940 debacle. He would rouse the Empire, he cried, to fight on. Vichy and the Gestapo nabbed and jailed him, buried him in silence. Last July, on a bypath of Fontainebleau Forest, militia of Vichy's Joseph Darnand rubbed him out in gangster style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Testament | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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