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Lewis "somewhat regretfully" accepted the Bridges plan. Van Horn voted Nay. Bridges announced: "We have solved on a temporary basis the differences, subject to further review." Lewis wired his miners: "PENSIONS GRANTED," which was taken to be a signal to go back to work. Lewis still had Judge Goldsborough angrily hovering over him, but he hoped that the sunshine of temporary peace would dissipate that cloud...
...House where just about anyone can feel at home, Winthrop has the most heterogeneous population of nay of the dwellings along the Charles. Here athletics, scientists, socialites, and promising novelists rub plastic trays in the subterranean dining halls, and if there is little united spirit, there is instead a rare atmosphere of live-and-let-live...
Bush said that such a trend now exists in American business and added that "at every hand throughout the world, opportunities-nay necessities of the most urgent order-call for its ministration...
...creator of "the ingenious knight of La Mancha" was ingenious enough to give his guards a good deal of trouble. After one of Cervantes' daring attempts to escape, the Turkish commander remarked: "So long as I have the maimed Spaniard secure, my slaves and my ships, nay the whole city will be safe." But when Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that...
...This child of mine has been resolutely kept to the average intelligence of thirteen years . . . as though you and your sponsors believe the majority of listeners have only moron minds. Nay, the curse of his commercials has grown consistently more cursed, year by year...