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...chides. "When I advised you not to be guilty of Folly, I meant no more than that you should take care to be well paid beforehand, and not trust to Promises, which a man seldom keeps, after he hath had his wicked Will. And seeing you have a rich Fool to deal with, your not making a good Market will be the more inexcusable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pamela, Shamela | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...loose from the United States to remove their industries, and above all, their man power, their skills and abilities, their industries, and above all their devotion to freedom into the neutral camp. Laying aside the moral wretchedness and the short-sightedness of such a course, it is still fool-hardy: for, while increasing the drain on America's men and money, it would not deter the China trade in the slightest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Investment | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

...President has stated that he would seek to make the plan self-enforcing and fool-proof, and at the same time has mentioned the "ratios of contributions (to the the stockpile), the procedures and other details" to be worked out in private conversations. But it is plain that the very life of the plan depends on a successful resolution of the disagreements over details. More than once the Russians have sabotaged a Western peace overture through unreasonable demands over procedure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atoms and the U.N. | 12/10/1953 | See Source »

...slightest way connected with the stage. Both very nearly approach the ridiculous. When the drama has reached a point in its development where its legitimacy as a means of artistic expression has been universally recognized for some hundreds of years, he can be no better than a fool who denies the legitimacy of study of the mechanical details by which expression is achieved." Hermann Hagerdorn '07, New York playwright and former student of Baker's wrote a letter to the CRIMSON calling Baker "a prophet who is without honor in his own country...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Harvard Theater: Puritans in Greasepaint | 12/10/1953 | See Source »

...doesn't believe for a moment that Charles Dawson, the attorney and amateur antiquarian who discovered the skull, is the perpetrator of the hoax. "I'm only guessing." he said, "but I think the joker was one of the technicians in the British Museum who had an ambition to fool the experts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alas, Poor Piltdown! I Knew Him... | 11/24/1953 | See Source »

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