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...anything ... to enable me to take my doctor's degree." Proud of "my critical faculties," adept in finding "objections to the immortality of the individual soul," Cronin was nonetheless "too much of a coward" to be an avowed atheist, too much of a fighter to settle into the rut of tame agnosticism. So he did his best to keep faith and skepticism in separate compartments...
...fuselage of the plane was lying in the middle of Westminster Avenue--it had dug a deep rut in the road," Gertner added. "Parts of the motor and wings were lying all over a playground...
...Michigan probably did more to produce the Yale which exists today than any other man. He erected 37 buildings, quadrupled endowments; formed a new engineering school, an observatory at Johannesburg, and the first U. S. graduate school of nursing; pulled the law and medical schools out of the rut, and set up a drama department under George P. Baker, an immigrant from Harvard...
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...Communists do have a clear aim -but it is not national, it is the aim dictated by Moscow. The various parties are divided on specific issues, many of them important; but no party seems to have an overall program capable of coaxing the French voter out of his rut...