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...same issue of the American columnist Austen Lake wrote "I bet President James B. Conant wondered how it is that Princeton attracts ... regiments of burly foot-fast boys while Harvard gets only freshmen with webtoes' pronated feets, hollow chests, and soprano voices...
Trusted Servant. Among the servants in the palace was a dark, hollow-cheeked 18-year-old, Pham Ngoc Lan, whom Commissioner de Raymond affectionately nicknamed le petit Tho (Little Tho). He had come into the Commissioner's service last August. Unaccountably, he had not been given the usual security check, but his shy manner and rare smile had won the confidence of the household. He was even allowed to tidy up the fussy Commissioner's air-conditioned bedroom. Last month le petit Tho took a day off, rode a bus 36 miles to Banam, where...
Godolphin has in his office, (besides a collection of rare knives and swords, which he denies using on the culprits) a wastebasket full of captured tools. This collection of implements taken by cops and proctors from unsuccessful freshman thieves includes one poker, two rusty hollow iron pipes, one hammer, one screwdriver, pliers, one stillson wrench, one car tire wrench, and one unidentifiable tool. He says that this basketful is only part of his original set of tools, many of which have been picked up later by their owners...
Crisis after crisis (Iran, the Suez Canal, the announcement of a whacking new dollar deficit) had smitten the country just before and during the campaign, but none had found more than a hollow echo in the banalities of electioneering. They were too much a fault of the times to provide political ammunition. The necessity for rearmament was not an arguable point but a sober fact, demanding some ?1,300 million of expenditure by the voters in 1951-52, regardless of which party...
...Allegro. 80. A rather startling exhibit of "hollow rolling sculpture" at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art consisted...