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...latest extensions include the million dollar business school on Commonwealth Avenue, completed in 1939, and a second million dollar project for the College of Liberal Arts now under construction right next door. Within a decade, most of the far-flung University will be concentrated in that area...
Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...
...hardy couples dropped out to cool off with champagne. The rest raced through London from Warwick House to an empty house at No. 1 Cambridge Square to the Ritz to the Peter Pan statue in Kensington (the Rolls-Royces had trouble getting through those narrow lanes), doggedly following the far-flung clues that had been written (in verse) by Howard Dietz. Sample clue (leading to a book planted inside the empty house...
Said concurring Justice Stanley H. Fuld: "When account is taken of the vast and far-flung audience reached by radio today-often far greater in number than the readers of the largest metropolitan newspaper-it is evident that the broadcast of scandalous utterances is ... [as] harmful to the defamed person's reputation as a publication by writing...
Tall, stooping Rt. Rev. William Marshall Selwyn is only worried about one thing: carfare. To visit the 80 chaplains in his far-flung see will take him at least two years of diligent travel. His Church of England stipend of $5,000 a year does not allow for much travel after living expenses have been paid. Even though he has a small private income, Bishop Selwyn hopes his episcopal gaiters will help him hitch many a plane or car ride. He plans to take his wife "only when I can afford...