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...drear Yard he sits...
...been worthy of the New Rome, but they have not eliminated Italy's dependence on foreign markets in which to sell her products and receive supplies. Typical of many of Mussolini's brain-children, autarchy has made a better showing on paper and on the rostrum than in the drear light of economic reality. CASTOR...
...restless inhabitants of Reunion or West turn over in their beds these drear days, rudely called from the arms of Morpheus by the peal of Old Nassau, which seems even yet in the still, small hours of the morning to summon men to a ghostly service, they may innocently consider to themselves the sublime beauty and glorious value of ancient traditions. --The Princetonian...
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
Finally Yale is enjoying the last of autumn pageantry, whereas our north country already is drear with days like cold slate. It is pleasant to go from a dying season southward into...