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...corn production, urged a congressional joint resolution "designating the golden corn tassel as the floral emblem of the U.S." In support of his proposal-duly referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee-Douglas read a sort of poem written by the late Edna Dean Proctor...
Manager Dick Steinzig said that the dorm's amazing record was a result of "unusually wide and intensive participation," and that Straus proctor Michael Maccoby "was one of the most active in the Yard...
Certainly it is annoying to have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so exquisitely modulated that you catch just half of their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is one other with which in comparision they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who, after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call...
...Gifford Proctor protested: "But if you're caught here, all of us will go to jail," and others rose to argue pro and con. Suddenly a high cry of anguish broke into the dialogue. "We'll take them in! We'll save them, won't we, Mother?" shrilled five-year-old Kim Sanders. His mother shushed him, and the talk went...
After a while Gifford Proctor changed his mind. "You'll save us?" asked Sam Lawrence. "No." said Gifford quietly, "it's we who will be saved." The "Hungarians" were hustled off behind the altar then, and the people in St. Matthew's raised their Christmas voices in Gloria in Excelsis...