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...most beautiful girl at the dance. He also said, in answer to Vag's question, that the "D" he had gotten on the hour exam was of absolutely no importance. "The final's the thing," he said, "and I'm sure you'll find it a lead-pipe cinch if you read the hymarx...
...Brothers would probably reason the same way, and since they wanted to win, would probably raise it another $5,000. That would make their bid $330,000. But then the Brothers might suspect Dr. Ferrin of the same reasoning, and add another $1,000 to the bid to cinch it. Apparently having judged the Brothers correctly, Dr. Ferrin added another $1 to top them...
While History 1 with its weekly detailed map work is gone forever, it is "highly recommended" by the Department that the concentrator take Social Science 1, which focuses more on trends than historical detail, which requires essays, and which is no cinch...
...Symington, popular in Congress, was a cinch to be confirmed in his new job. A skilled persuader, he will then have to cajole the board's members (the Secretaries of State, Defense, Treasury, Commerce, Interior, Agriculture and Labor), the President, the Congress and the U.S. people into hardheaded preparations for mobilizing industry, manpower and national resources in the event of war. His new job will not be so exciting as selling air power, which, with the help of a receptive audience, he had done very well...
...from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning a race he was supposed to throw, Garfield flees to Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life. But the jockey's son, whose hero worship has barely survived a touch of disillusionment, is counting on him to win. In this kind of situation, even...