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University estimates indicate that the cost of taking these loans in heu of the federal money could cost a student about $3000 to $4000 over four years...
...distraheris pantherae flexu, Para dicere Heu...
...newly hatched self-confidence man decides that Heu is quite good but that Non respondera is not up to snuff as a translation of "Don't anther." Generally, that sort of Nashian distortion is not handled really well, the arbiter elegantiarum decides comfortably, but translations that do not require puns or word twists are sometimes perfect. Exempli gratia...
...stately Latin (Truman was furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota repulsum, quid promissa iuvant? Tua quid praesagia, Gallup?" (Carefree translation: The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul-vain prayers, vain promises, vain Gallup poll!) Lauding his modesty, Higham quoted Truman's supposed resume of his first day's activity after returning to Independence...
...American Legion, which has a number of methods quite remarkably its own of coming before the public eye. In witness whereof Boston is at this very moment reverberating to the martial (albeit slightly unsteady and irregular) tramp of feet, the blat of tubas, the rattle of canes (in Heu of musketry) and the clash of an indescribable array of colors. Her citizenry has the opportunity of feasting its eyes upon an unparalleled collection of 100 per cent Americans and hats. Admittedly not as many of these ardent militarists have witnessed the firing of a rifle with intent to kill...