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...citizens who have tried to discover its meaning throughout their stay in France, often persist to the point of asking even the very last Frenchman whom they see on the dock before embarking for home. The reticence of even rough dock hands has impressed many...
While lawyers wrangle over past romances, adventurous spirits still persist in creating complications. If precedent be followed, the Wilkins expedition will cause a dispute over the ownership of further frigid patches of the Arctic ocean...
...temple, where the brush and cactus were so thick that he had hacked for fifteen or twenty minutes before he could discern the outline of the cupoia. I believe his elation did much to convince the Indians helping as that we were not hunting for gold as their kind persist in believing...
Harold Lloyd was not so far from wrong when he described college life in his much maligned moving picture "The Freshman". For such odd phenomena do still persist in spite of all the attempts on the part of the semi-sane to make university life at least half cultural. Indeed, I have discovered by some diligent research in the files of other college papers many gestures of the "just step right up and call me Speedy" variety. For instance...
Many Harvard graduates are prone to take for granted that the Harvard given them by heritage will likewise persist in the future through some invisible power. That will depend upon Harvard...