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When the water has filled the lake, it will creep through branching canals that lace like arteries through the plains. It is mournful country now, far more depressing than self-respecting desert. In rainy years, some parts of it produce a fair crop of wheat; successive waves of settlers have tried to make a go of wheat farming. Nearly all have failed and fled. Their houses stand empty, surrounded by grey-green sagebrush, symbols of desolation...
...editorializing than is involved, for example, when an editor decides to print one story and not another. But interpretation requires integrity and knowledge and understanding and balance and detachment . . . News interpretation is all too readily misunderstood. Whenever interpretations differ from the preconceived notions of readers, misunderstanding is likely to creep in. "Objectivity is a very elusive thing. It usually means, to the individual, agreement with his own views . . . This is a problem newspapers can solve in the long run by steadfast news objectivity and honest interpretation. But it sometimes seems to be an uphill road...
...citizens began attacking the schools at a series of meetings held in the American Legion Hall. Most of them thought their children were not doing well enough at school, and charged that Superintendent Goslin was not putting enough emphasis on the three Rs. But soon other charges began to creep into the arguments. Some of the group objected to Goslin because he was for federal aid to education though he had made it amply clear that he did not mean federal control. Others accused him of favoring "modern pragmatic education"-a slogan they made up but never bothered to explain...
...Tigers, rowing at 32, then began to creep up gradually but steadily. Harvard held them off with a power ten at two minutes gone, but by the three-quarter mile mark the two shells were almost even. Princeton passed Harvard as the crews went under the Massachusetts Avenue bridge, upping the beat to 53. Just after the bridge the Crimson put on another power ten, but failed to make up any of the lost ground. From then on, Princeton, rowing with perfect precision, kept pulling out. The Tigers finished the race with a 35 stroke in 9:12.3. Harvard sprinted...
...That's Easy." "This creep forced the convertible on me," she insisted. Asked how a Cadillac could be forced on an unwilling girl, she answered, simply: "That's easy." After eight months of seeing Sidney, she decided that she just couldn't stand him any longer. "On dates I'd take him to the movies-I didn't want to look at him." Then Sidney got mad and threatened her and swore to take back his gifts. "If he had said 'I need the money,' I would have gladly given everything back...