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...slightly stained with lipstick). Sister, browsing in the Teen Scene department, was staring with fascination at a pair of earrings she might just forget to pay for, if no one was going to be looking too hard. Sonny was in school, doing pretty well on a math test by dint of some judicious copying from a friend's paper. And Dad was busy at the office, adding a few fictitious lunches to his expense account and wondering about the feasibility of his company's renting another suite in Miami to be written off as a business expense...
...dint of everlasting perseverance, study, and self-development he went from that humble beginning to all-America fame in three years. After completing graduate work in Civil Aeronautics, Portfolio joined the coaching staff and introduced the forward pass, which he affectionately called "the bomb...
Weighed down by the world's highest taxes, labor and construction costs, the U.S. merchant fleet survives only by dint of vast Government subsidies...
...watershed system has received only 131 in. of precipitation, well below the 80-year average of 23 in. for the first half of the year. In normal times, the city's industries and 8,000,000 inhabitants use a daily per-capita average of 154 gal. By dint of the restrictions imposed, that average is now down to 125 gal. and may be cut even more. As of last week, New York City's 476.5 billion-gal.-capacity reservoirs held only 240.7 billion...
...hard for him to maintain. He has been deluged by a flood of requests and offers since the London sale of Titus, including thousands of pleas for handouts, dozens of propositions from art pushers, and an offer from an Englishwoman to sell him a 150-year-old pub. By dint of his business acumen, his acquisition of great art and his generosity in lending that art through the Norton Simon Foundation, he has become a national figure?whether he wanted...