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They showed a rich American scorning war; later joining up. They showed him, by a misadventure, killing his buddy and feeling pretty badly about it. Cynics recalled a not dissimilar situation in Wings. They showed his loved one as a song and dance girl in an army theatre. They showed his loved one all but shot as a German spy, her salvation being his presence in the firing squad. Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah...
Louis Eckstein is one of those extraordinary men who are able to associate themselves simultaneously and successfully with totally dissimilar enterprises. He publishes the Red Book; its staff regards him solely as an expert upon what the public likes to read. The men who help him with the Ravinia Park scheme never for a moment doubt that this is his principal interest in the world. Ever since 1913, when he started the concerts by engaging the Chicago Symphony for a summer, he has kept the programs of the Ravinia music. Now, when asked about the history of his Ravinia Park...
...Alexander Meiklejohn lost the (eighth) Presidency of Amherst for subjecting its traditions to radical educational experiments not dissimilar to those proposed for Wisconsin...
...ideal conception of the Isis and the Cam a lazy, rural stream, from whose lush banks only the flight of rooks above a grey-thatched cottage disturbs the quiet beauty of the English countryside. It must be admitted that trip in a wherry or a single, reveals a scene dissimilar to this. "The boatsman is seldom out of sight, during the lower half, of his journey, of apartment houses and the stadium: and lest the forget that he is still in urban surroundings he is reminded of the fact at least once by a small boy who wants...
...clock, Dr. Friedrich will talk on "Judicial Supremacy in Europe." Americans too apt to scorn any system dissimilar to the best American style, give little thought to schemes of judicature so different from their own as those of Europe...