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...balls, incidentally, cost an inflated $8 each, and are about the size of a baseball, though much harder. Except for shinguards, the Radcliffe girls wear no other protection. The only other equipment they carry besides their sticks is a blue pinafore worn to distinguish between teams. One club, therefore, is referred to as "The Pinnies." The other becomes simply the "Non-Pinnies...
...recent select-the-best phrase question: "In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot unfold the whole web of our existence; we must 1) winnow the wheat from the chaff, 2) pick out the single threads, 3) scrap the flotsam and jetsam, 4) isolate the relevant factors, 5) distinguish between the warp and the woof." Students who ticked off No. 2 got it right...
...would like to distinguish clearly between a program which looks toward rearming Germany and Japan on the basis of opportunism and expediency, and the program which I suggest-which is to restore these two nations to positions of responsibility and respectability in the family of nations. The former is a make shift on the purely military level. The latter is a long-term political program for peace...
...catalogue introduction, National Gallery Curator John Walker pointed out that Gulbenkian had picked virtually all his pictures without the assistance of experts, and that he got fine art, anyway. The collection, wrote Walker, reflects "his personality. Gladstone enumerated six qualities which distinguish a collector: 'Appetite, leisure, wealth, knowledge, discrimination, and perseverance.' These qualities Mr. Gulbenkian possesses to a pre-eminent degree. [Fellow financiers] would be surprised to hear him comparing their business dealings to . . . Italian paintings! With tireless patience he has sought beautiful objects; pictures, sculpture, ancient coins, Near Eastern ceramics, manuscripts, eighteenth-century furniture, tapestries...
...Many of my friends at the National University were North Koreans, and I know that Communism is not a popular doctrine in the North," says Lee, who thinks that Americans fail to distinguish between the situation in China, where Communism is being accepted, and North Korea. He points out that over two million Koreans left the Red zone for the South between 1945 and 1949, and that students throughout the Russian area demonstrated against the changes in the educational system introduced by the Communists. "In fact," he adds, "Many students fled the country entirely...