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...make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure, and it is an art-one that flowered most richly with the late Ruth Draper. To call Joyce Grenfell a superior Draper's assistant is not faint praise...
Although it would be overly optimistic to expect the practice of education to duplicate the theory, it seems reasonable that the one bear a faint resemblance to the other. In respect to the grading of senior honors theses, the difference between the theory and the practice is so vast as to be almost incredible and easily intolerable...
...intersections along northwest Detroit's Eight Mile Road Negro workmen begin to gather at 6 a.m., waiting in faint hope that somebody will come by and offer a few hours' work. "It's like the numbers game," one man says. "The odds is way against you. But what else can I do? I been out of work since last fall...
...Sullivan's modest sphere would not be conspicuous to the naked eye, but it could be picked up easily with low-power moonwatch telescopes. Its great virtue would be its short life. Even on a comparatively high orbit, the tenuous bubble of nothing would be slowed by faint traces of air on the threshold of space. Following a circular course 300 miles above the earth, it would live for only about ten days, and its rapid changes of speed and altitude would measure air density much more accurately than the slow responses of heavier satellites...
James Costigan, son of a chandelier maker, is both poet and theologian (though he does not profess to be either), as well as a bundle of paradoxes. Though he cultivates a faint brogue derived from his County Kerry ancestry, he never saw Ireland until 1954. He can talk religion with the most devout, but he has not practiced Roman Catholicism since his high school days ended his formal education. Though Hollywood seems a most unlikely place to have produced the author of Little Moon, he was raised there, played some bit parts as a child, shook off the "meaningless" glamour...