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...Graduate School of American and Foreign Law, which takes in a special annual quota of students from Latin America, offers a one-year Master of Laws degree to students from any friendly free nation outside the U.S., and underwrites professors carrying on legal research and writing projects...
...collecting bills from the poor. Brusquely, yet delicately, Speaker Shoemaker talks about the doctor's great bereavement−the beloved wife whose mind gave way after she lost two babies. A Family Party is slight, but it was not intended to be more. It is sentimental, but its quota of sentimentality is precisely the dollop that is a standard ingredient in the life of almost anyone's "our town...
...most spectacular tribute came from the growing armies of readers. When the country's newspaper circulations were unfrozen in 1946 for the first time after World War II, News of the World shot up 900,000 in a single week from its 4,000,000 wartime quota. For years, hungry readers queued for it, waited for subscribers to die so they could take the place on the subscription rolls...
...been wildly scattered and in places quite submerged all over the Napa Valley countryside. For all that is folkish in Fella, something plaintively simple is missing; as there is sentiment and to spare but no pervasive current of emotion. For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been choked up, and in places even hoked up with rustic razzle-dazzle and vineyard partygoing. All this might just get by were the parties more festive; but despite plenty of good dance music, Fella offers remarkably commonplace dancing...
Although no official quota was set on the number of freshmen who would be admitted to the Houses of their first choice, the Masters reportedly agreed among themselves again to break down the supposed house stereotypes...