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...would end a student's claim to dependency at the logical figure--the one at which he no longer needs family support. The only difficulty would be to determine where support stops and indulgence begins. Parents whose only contribution to a student's education might be a new Jaguar and a Brooks Bros. charge account should not be permitted to claim his as a dependent. So even under the new system some arbitrary limit is necessary. (Perhaps it could be based on the total cost of tuition, room and board with a constant figure added for "expenses...
Occupants of the Jaguar stalled on a lonely Yorkshire road were grateful to the wiry, gray-haired farmer who had quickly repaired their broken distributor. Their thanks turned to amazement when they recognized the impromptu mechanic as England's foremost philosopher of art. For one of the paradoxes about Sir Herbert Read is his combination of a vast knowledge of practical things and the intellectual aloofness of the creative artist...
BRITAIN'S Jaguar Cars Ltd., whose sleek sports cars lead all other imported makes in dollar sales in the U.S., hopes to get more of the American market by cutting prices. Reductions range from $190 up to $889 (e.g., from $4,039 to $3,345 for its open two-seater sport), Jaguar's first big price slash in the U.S. auto market since World...
...Watkins Glen, N.Y., Garage Owner Walter E. Hangsen of Westfield, N.J. took his 160 h.p. Jaguar XK-120 sports car around 22 laps of wicked curves to win the annual road race. Average speed: 76.1 m.p.h...
...fire, water, house, etc. It was tough going. They found that the only difference between many words was the presence or absence of a glottal stop (written ' in the phonetic system devised by Townsend). For example, 'ino ka 'okë 'ikën means "The jaguar is at the other side of the river." Pronounced without the stop before the third word, the same sounds mean "The jaguar has come." Townsend's team also found that the Cashibos could put the Germans to shame with multisyllabled words. In Cashibo, the single word onanmishrontëkenbai...