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...take no risk whatever except when conscience compels us. We should not expend any 'risk' for the sake of having a scoop, for the sake of being the 'wise guy,' for the sake of attracting attention or being entertaining. . . . We must be scrupulously careful not to confuse what is happening with what we devoutly wish may happen...
...urging "favorable action" by Congress on Bill S. 472, he produced tables for a Senate committee on education showing that financially poor states are unable to expend enough to give an adequate education to the school child...
...Francis Cabot Lowell, Harvard 1793, half-brother of "Rebel" John. He went into trade: cotton-cloth manufacturing. Greenslet calls him "the first educated man ... to expend his whole energy in organizing and improving the industry." Lowell, Mass, is named...
...have had a similar effect on all of us, such as the long depression, which was a nice, upholstered euphemism for panic, our politics, the Roosevelt experiments in gentle revolution and, finally, the war, and the concurrent decline in sports and other grim frivolities on which we used to expend our passions. In other words, aren't we all and, so, why pick...
...Pattern. The Army, as it clawed through German defenses before Florence, one of Italy's greatest cities, did its part to expend the last German munitions and men south of the Po. The battle for Florence was expected to follow the pattern of Rome. Like the capital, the mellow, sun-washed city of art had been declared open by the Germans a month ago. Now, a few miles outside it, the Germans were fighting with fierce, expert craft. At week's end the German resistance stiffened. But the Germans' battle was a losing one. Within a matter...