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...standing should be given the privileges of the dean's list. Why would this not be a practical plan? At least, it could be given a tentative trial. If this latitude were granted them, we believe that most Seniors would avail themselves of their privilege with discretion and would employ their time to their great, benefit...
Among his foibles have been noted "a taste for ice cream, and a reluctance to employ the death penalty except in extreme cases." Said an observer: "Feng is a 'Christian,' yes; but of a special kind. Like Cromwell he teaches his men to pray well and shoot better...
Home from collecting in South and Central America for the Museum of the American Indian, A. Hyatt Verrill of Manhattan related of Indians living inland from Oldbank, Panama, that they employ the Elizabethan expressions "Gadzooks," "forsooth," "marry," "yea," "nay," "thee," "ye." Explanation: in 1680, Buccaneer Batholomew Sharp sailed to Panama with 350 lusties in The Most Blessed Trinity. They looted, killed, burned out the Spaniards, founded Oldbank, where today live many a Sharp, many a Coxon, Hawkins, Ringrose (names of Sharp's lieutenants...
Sirs: I have just read in your issue of Sept. 28 and notice on Page 2 that Mr. Barlow Henderson had complained of your using the word "Mr." in speaking of Negroes, and that in your reply you say: "TIME will, however, continue to employ the 'Mr.' in referring to men who lack other titles...
...needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...