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...handgrips) and caught hold of it. Somebody was close to me in the water. Looking back, I am more and more amazed by the unreality of the whole affair. I remember being seriously worried as to the propriety of scrambling on top of this raft. I was not au fait with ocean etiquette. For all I knew, good Riflemen ought to hang onto the side. However, my scruples cannot have been very serious, for the next moment I was established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...traditional attempt to prognosticate Lampy's executive board on the day before the election, and then prematurely to announce the "results" as a fait accompli, the CRIMSON yesterday laid an ostrich egg in correctly picking only one man out of an executive board of eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWIE, RICHARDSON NEW LAMPY PRESIDENT, IBIS | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

Recognizing the limitation of outside guests at Carnival as a "fait accompli," Palaeopitus last night released a statement in explanation of the restrictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Governing Body at Dartmouth Forced to Limit Carnival Outsiders | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...Yorker was evidently unaware that white mice are no longer an fait in London drawing rooms. More than 20 colors are now available-bred by experts who give mouse shows, regard mouse breeding as Big Business and to whom white mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mice Beautiful | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...president has presented his college with a fait accompli. In its larger aspects there will be relatively little difference between the Yale plan and the Harvard system of "generals". For Yale, however, it is a complete break with the past; formerly an undergraduate merely collected a sufficient number of course credits to receive his diploma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE CATCHES UP | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

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