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Thoroughness is a virtue that has never been sufficiently extolled. The cursory reader of even this daily pays the penalty for his cursory perusal by an imperfect knowledge of the facts in the case. Not that we are by any manner of means apologizing for the incident. On the contrary, we relished it thoroughly. From the unfortunates who were victimized we exacted poetic justice. A journalistic Nemesis overtook those who read the headlines and run. Princetonian...
...According to Vincent Pater: "We believe that Purgatory exists, as we believe firmly that Hell and Heaven exist, because God has made known this to us through the Catholic Church. . . . It is a place of detention where the imperfect departed souls are purified before entrance into Heaven by suffering both from deprivation of the vision of God and from some kind of confinement by fire...
Dartmouth's slate, which promises to be as clean as anyone's at the end of the season, was never threatened with a smudge from Brown. Messrs. Hall, Oberlander, Dooley, Leavitt and their assistants travelled 222 yards during an afternoon punctuated with many imperfect passes by Brown. Score: Dartmouth 10, Brown...
...priests maintained a regular stock yard on the Mount of Olives," he said. "In connection with animal sacrifices, the Jewish priests required that only perfect animals be offered up at the altars. As many of the animals brought for sacrifice were imperfect, the priests permitted these animals to be exchanged for perfect ones provided for that purpose, in exchange for a small fee for the inconvenience...
...Hooker's book is much more than a Bowles biography. It is a brilliant resume of the history of the U. S. From the Whig revolt to the election of Gov. Calvin Coolidge on a League of Nations platform, Mr. Hooker deftly recalls to one's imperfect memory the great political organizations of this nation. Rarely has so much history been so judiciously set forth in so few words...