Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alibis to make . . . he race ten times as a two-yeah-old an' out of those ten races he win ten. How's 'at? Upset beat him? I didn't see it, mister, so I still say it's a lie...
Princetonians themselves will be the guinea pigs in specific researches coming up. But it will all go on in a quite and unobstrusive way. Since no recommendations concerning methods of instruction or other matters of educational policy lie within the scope of the project, fact-finding for its own sake will be the order of the day. The method of attack will consist in "critical objective analysis, proceeding a step at a time from the simple to the complex as results accumulate...
Somewhere between the balm of a "courageous attempt" and the sting of a painful and wearisome failure lies the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production for 1947. That it is brave to attempt the resurrection of a mouldering and awkward work by Henrik Ibsen can hardly be denied; the question is whether sufficient resources lie behind the bravado to justify the effort...
...said, with an impatient toss of her head. "Slavs will tell you any lie that suits them...
...almost unknown geologically. But both the Amazon and the towering Andes were covered some 200 million years ago by the same shallow sea. An unexplained disturbance wrinkled the earth's crust. The western part of the sea bottom was lifted high in the air, where its sedimentary strata lie exposed today. The rest (toward the east) is still deeply buried under the tangled jungle...