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...world's foremost lumbering centers and its dock area hums day and night with ships loading wood chips for Japan. Otherwise, it is a collection of modest houses, an attractive downtown shopping area and several motels?most of them strung along U.S. 101, the main street. Its nigh school, a Depression-era legacy of the Public Works Administration, sits prominently on a high hill. When the morning fog clears?at 8 a.m., whiteness blankets the town?Marshfield High commands a sweeping view of Coos...
...Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Some Arabs might judge the Lord's injunction to Moses in Deuteronomy 1: 7 as an early example of Zionist expansionism: "turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites* and unto all the places nigh there unto, as far as the great river Euphrates...
...tell you the truth, though, I really can't understand why you're taking so long to fill this position. Mr. Watson, it seems, announced his decision to step down well-nigh six months ago, presumably to give his successor plenty of time to get acclimated...
Princeton lagged behind in the early years, as up until 1905 Harvard took six out of nine national championships. Yale took the rest. After that, Yale became well-nigh invincible, winning nine consecutive intercollegiate championships. The great Eli golfers of there were John and Archie Reid. Ellis Knowles, Dudley Mudge, DeWitt Balch, Dexter Cummings, Rossiter Betts, Laddy McMohan and Jess Sweetser, who also played quarterback for the Blue...
Thus Satan to his wife approaching nigh...