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...original deal, backed by the junta, political posts throughout the nation were to be split fifty-fifty between Liberals and Conservatives for a cooling-off period of twelve years; the first President would be a Conservative, the next a Liberal, and so on. Hopes were that the truce would cancel out the traditional inter-party hatreds that underlie the rural civil war; at the end of twelve years normal two-party politics could take over...
Driving rain and social engagements forced the Princeton tennis team to cancel Saturday's match with the varsity after about half an hour of play. At that point, the Crimson was leading in eight of the ten singles matches and was tied in the other...
During the 20's Pierian conformed with the rest of its overblown generation by planning a huge summer tour which included Canada and Hawaii. Before the University could cancel the trip, Pierian has lost $7,000 in defaulted bonds. Within five years, however, the debt was reduced...
...Lucy Baines Johnson, 10), even in the initials of his beagle pet (Little Beagle Johnson). Lyndon Johnson would rather be caught dead than in a suit costing less than $200. Indeed, when he suffered his far-from-mild 1955 heart attack, the question arose about whether to cancel orders he had put in with his San Antonio tailor for a blue suit and a brown one. Muttered Lyndon, who knew that doctors gave him only a fifty-fifty chance to live: "Let him go ahead with the blue one; we can use that no matter what happens...
...have to unlearn old symbols and learn new ones. We are casehardened with tradition." "In modern math," adds Teacher Helene Lannon, who got her master's degree as late as 1948, "we have had to learn a new vocabulary. In the traditional mathematics we would say 'cancel out numbers.' Now you say 'divide.' Traditional algebra was taught as real numbers, and it was taught by rote. In the set theory, you can prove it logically...