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...instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General Lee to the rear"; Phil Sheridan, little god of war, red-faced and raging beneath his fork-tailed battle flag along the rutted road to Appomattox: "Now smash 'em, I tell...
...ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English and grow up to write bad plays, rescuing the underprivileged boy from across the tracks, and airily saving the town bank from failing during the Depression. Actress Jones seems to have a fine time portraying the exemplar of all the virtues. However, the town's citizens, all of whom seem to have been in her classroom at one time or another, are a bad argument for her teaching methods. Their jaws drop with astonishment whenever she uses a word of more than two syllables (which she does with...
...done much more than survive, however," Bender continues. "Her ency clopedic knowledge of Harvard, her efficiency, her tact and patience and good will have made her literally invaluable. She is the embodiment of the wisdom and tradition of 4 University Hall and the true exemplar of that select company of selfless women servants of the University without whom Harvard's wheels would quickly grind to a halt."MISS GLADYS M. FALES, supervisor of the Student Employment Office, places nearly 2,000 students a year in a wide range of local jobs...
Citation: "A man imbued with the ideals of his Christian faith, deeply interested in Christian higher education, and prominent as an exemplar of Catholic principles in public and family life...
...monks arrive with coffins for all. This imaginary incident made such a good spectacle that Donizetti wrote an opera around it. *The Florentine Ambassador Machiavelli met Cesare in the course of diplomatic business, was so taken with Cesare's forthright approach that he used him as an exemplar of the successful ruler in the famed treatise, The Prince...