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...impossible to give the plot of such a play for the management would be about our ears in no time for giving away their little secret. We might say for those who can't wait that Montgomery Stockbridge, hard-hearted financier, is definitely and decently murdered at the outset of the play in his own library. Thereafter it becomes a question of whom to congratulate...
...Thirdly, it should be appreciated that the President and the Secretary of State of the United States have, from the outset, shown opposition to the exclusion clause. Public opinion in the United States, reflected in a great section of the American press, appears sympathetically disposed toward Japan's position...
...outset let it be understood that this Convention, composed of the militant representatives of the Democracy of the nation, is no cold-storage affair. It is going to be red-hot, highly seasoned, and well prepared...
...pound race began late in the afternoon under excellent weather conditions. Harvard and Princeton took the lead from Yale at the very outset, but after the high start stroke had been dropped by all three, it was found that Yale was rowing a stroke two beats lower than either the Crimson or the Orange and Black. At the half-mile mark both had open water on the Elis. From this point on Princeton weakened, Harvard remained the same, and Yale improved...
...into science and economics courses which have not yet become fashionable for women, is obvious. Many minds for which literature and allied subjects have at first only a slight appeal, are later, drawn thereto, after preliminary examination, with compelling force and all these potential adherents are repelled at the outset, the loss to the beaux arts is quite apparent...