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...experts consider a ten percent return on letters average, the Food Relief quota for commuters has necessarily been placed at close to seventy percent. Minor difficulties such as distaste for the gummy side of stamps, lack of ink, and the ever-present aversion to mailing a letter should not, deter any student or faculty member from giving to this vitally important program...
...Friday the story was shaping up. Ledsham arrived from Coventry with a first-rate story. June Rose turned up with a blue nose, some warm and revealing local color, and an anecdote: the "blinking coal crisis" did not deter a fish porter she interviewed at Billingsgate from offering her mussels, which she loathes but "swallowed-in the interest of TIME," giving a brief rèsumeè of the history of the 400-year-old market and, as a parting shot, bestowing a calendar upon her which told among other things the price of fish in the reign of Edward...
...liberal, on the other hand, would say: (1) to gain the support of the American people, the liberal movement must be "as pure as Caesar's wife: the masses of the American people don't like Communists and it is the pragmatic duty of the liberal to deter to this if he wishes to get anywhere at all: (2) from bitter experience, we (the ADA) can say that the Communist within the liberal organization is dangerous--he forces the liberal to keep one eyes on the "family silverware" even while the great liberal "battle at the gate" is raging...
...Aside from that," said John Lewis to the court, "I have nothing except enough money to pay my bills, but don't let that deter you from levying any amount that you wish to levy on me personally...
...claimed that his contract didn't expire until 1950. Bing and his business-managing brothers, Larry and Everett, insisted that the contract was technically dead. And until Der Bingle could name his own terms, including the right to transcribe his programs weeks before they are broadcast, he was deter mined to cheese it. Kraft took its grievance to court...