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...fielding behind him helped. Allard made a nice grab of a Gene Doucette liner in the first inning to save a hit, and second baseman Gaylord Lyman picked up a bouncer that had glanced off of Brown's glove, tagged a runner advancing from first and threw to Martelli for a sparkling double play to end the fifth...
...Soviet Union is still comparatively inferior in economic strength. This is why it relies on growing military power and the threat of war to expand, its aim being to grab the resources, wealth, and labor power of other countries to compensate for its economic inferiority...
Next, the fans. What a great game to attend! Just think if you knew in advance that this was going to happen, you could get one of those return passes like they have at film festivals. See a few innings, go grab some dinner, see a movie or go bowling, then back to the ballpark. A great night...
...such familiar and useful aims. Boyer's main point, though, is that most colleges ignore them in the day-to-day business of planning curriculums. Instead of thinking about how best to provide a general education, most colleges, says Boyer, merely turn students loose to choose from a grab bag of courses that make the approved list as a result of academic politics. In planning student programs, explains Carnegie Senior Fellow Arthur Levine, "at most schools, three credits in economics is the same as three in political science. Biology is equivalent to physics. You can satisfy humanities requirements with...
...children. He couldn't find them anywhere. There were short people and people under twelve years of ago, but they had no child's vulnerability, no unstuck laughter. They cracked into the M2 buses like terrified bison running for their lives, for fear the school at their backs would grab them and eat them up one more time. It wasn't until he caught the downtown A that he saw what they had done with their childhood. They had wrapped it in dark cloth, sneaked it underground and thrown it all over the trains. Like blazing jewels, the subway cars...