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...setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme in his area. He shuttles planes about at will, cannot be gainsaid by officers in the field...
...fact that the fraternities themselves are encouraging the introduction of tutors in their houses indicates a changed attitude on their part. It can hardlly be gainsaid that in the past the fraternity has often been superfluous from the strictly educational point of view. Its social functions have tended either to ignore or impede the proper work of the colleges, so that to the average dean fraternities have been objects of toleration rather than causes of complacency. And the era of gold-brick prosperity did little to retard their centrifugal tendencies...
...discouraging. Audacious, with his alphabetical system, was summarily tossed off as in ill-mannered diletante. But when scholars of a most advanced and complex science, after impaling human specimens for their study, induce, (it's largely a matter of induction, the scientific approach, no less), their findings cannot be gainsaid. The die is cast, Sophoclean fate has decreed, and the New England tetrology are distinct types, like...
...benefit of posterity and all others interested the following description of the sweet quintessence of Harvard, made up of the best features from all obtainable authorities, may serve the useful purpose of concluding the controversy with an air of finality that is not to be gainsaid...
...biographer and niece, Martha Bianchi, avoided explicitness, displayed an understandable reticence in throwing too much light on the mystery. Her editor and sister, Lavinia, reluctantly surrendered The Complete Poems, in 1922. But their completeness is gainsaid by the present, "little unexplored package" of 150 poems, some of them pondering the emptiness left by love, more of them blithely magnifying the details that filled her life...