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Evers, averaging a mere 2.7 points per game on the season, had his finest night as a cager, connecting on all five of his field goal attempts and netting a career-high 13 points (11 first half...
Last year, in front of 1000 spectators at Blodgett Pool, the same thing happened. In the last relay, with the meet on the line, Princeton finished on top by the narrowest of margins, a mere four-hundredths of a second...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...
...Mere mention of Claude Dallas can spark a shoving match in any Great Basin saloon or diner. At the Koffeepot Cafe, several miles from the site of Dallas' trial, Tiny, an Idaho-size chunk of a man, bellows about Dallas while nursing a large RC Cola. His reverence for the poacher scarcely exceeds his antipathy for the law. "Pogue being a sumbitch," Tiny admits, "don't make it right that Dallas shot him in the head after shooting him once." But for Tiny, and others, a blistering rancor justified the first bullet...
Considering such questions mere quibbles, many optimistic analysts are convinced that the crashing of the 2000 barrier is the start of another major market upsurge that might last anywhere from two to five years. That would be a truly extraordinary event, since the current bull has already lasted for 52 months, nearly twice as long as the 30-month average life of postwar bull markets. Nonetheless, declares Steven Einhorn, chief portfolio strategist for the Goldman Sachs investment house, "there is a lot of life left in this bull market...