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Harry Truman had had a fine time at Princeton's sooth Anniversary (see EDUCATION). He had marched in the academic procession with the world's intellectual great. Mounting the platform steps to get an LL.D. degree, he had caught his foot in the hem of his purple-trimmed academic gown. "Whups," he said. "I forgot to pull up my dress." The ceremonies over, he shook hands warmly. "It's been a great day for me. I enjoyed myself thoroughly." Then he had hurried back to Washington and delivered his veto of the labor bill...
...spectacled, crushed-looking man in shirtsleeves kneels at her feet, doing something to the edge of her skirt. If one looks closely one finds that actually he is about to take a measurement with a yardstick. But to a casual glance he looks as though he were kissing the hem of the woman's garment-not a bad symbolical picture of American civilization, or at least of one important side...
...about three ordinary games' worth. Harlow's charges had not run up against a line approaching the Crusaders' in quality before Saturday, and it is improbable that they will again this season. With that calibre of opposition behind them, the Cantab runners and passers and the blockers ahead of hem ought to be able to overcome almost any kind of defensive play they face from...
Equipped with a great deal of faith and a great scarcity of money and publishing experience, they decided to start a new religious magazine. Its name: Integrity. Its aim: to blast lay Catholics loose from materialism and worldly compromise, help hem lift their daily lives as sacraments...
...morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must...