Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westfall, of Dunster, and Sam Clapp, Eliot, waged a spectacular battle, Westfall pinning his opponent with a back-bar arm one second before the end of the match...
...Bender has stated that the Administration hesitates to give credit for foreign study because there are no safeguards to insure that a man will take his work seriously. Many European universities have a loosely-knit system under which the student needs only to take a cursory examination at the end of the school year to receive full credit for courses he has hardly bothered to attend. The College, says the Dean, cannot take the chance that one of the four years spent in preparation for the degree will be wasted...
...brings a newly-orphaned girl named Lark into the house. Niven, aged five, takes an immediate liking to her, but his sister--who distinguishes herself as a real five-star nogoodnick throughout--feels otherwise, and manages to make the two of them acutely unhappy for twenty years, at the end of which time they fall violently in love, reveal their burning passions to each other, but part forever due to a clever bit of trickery on the part of the sister...
...indeed clasped these rights to their bosoms many years ago. Vandenberg disagreed with Barkley on principle; he just felt that the Parliamentary rule in question did not apply to debate on a motion to introduce a measure. To pretend that it did, Vandenberg said, would be tainting the worthy end of civil rights by using unwholesome means...
...difficult to disagree with anyone who claims that the means do not justify the end. But Senator Vandenberg has clouded the argument by his appeal for cricket. When the rule was adopted in 1917, its purpose was to allow two-thirds of the Senate to prevent a filibuster; the fact that later on the Dixiecrats joyfully discovered a loephole is unfortunate, yet Barkley's effort to plug that loophole seems in no way a breach of ethics...