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...mother [Dowager], Queen Marie, and my sister, Princess Ileana, will soon visit me in Paris. It is a fact that important political events are occurring in Rumania. That is the reason my mother is coming to confer with...
...alas! Imperial Heaven ... observe these things! ... I, the Minister of Heaven . . . am scorched with grief. . . . I am inexpressibly grieved, alarmed and frightened. . . . Knocking my head upon the Earth, I pray Imperial Heaven to hasten and confer gracious deliverance, a speedy and divinely beneficial rain...
...their pupils as to make it difficult for them to pursue their own studies and research and a danger was felt of losing our best men if they could not be given a better opportunity for these things. They were asked whether limiting the time when their pupils might confer with them to certain hours of the day or certain days of the week would give relief, but they replied that, so long as the regular routine of the college proceeded, their relations of friendliness and helpfulness to their pupils would be marred by any thing that resembled closing their...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...
...Pennypacker "88, chairman of the Harvard Faculty Committee on Admission, will begin next week a trip which will continue through two months and take him to many of the leading cities in the West and Far West and also to the Hawaiian Islands. He will speak in the schools, confer with teachers and school superintendents, and incidentally talk to the Harvard Clubs in the communities which he will visit. Mr. Pennypacker's prime object is to make educators and pupils familiar with the entrance requirements of the Eastern colleges and with other subjects related to college entrance...