Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign also contributes to this lack of focus. For nearly twenty years Cambridge elections have lacked the personal clash of two candidates putting not only their personalities but also their beliefs into clear opposition. Since the adoption of Plan E in 1945, no elected official has been able to say with certainty that his election represents general public acceptance of his policies...
Finally, he proposed that a poem could even say things that were false, and still mean a great deal because "emotion brings to truth" its "structure of untruth...
Although Jacobs would not specify the recommendations to be put forward in the report, he did say that the committee would not request an extension of weekday hours in the evening, "since these are working nights...
Students in the U.S., unlike those in so many other countries, do not form a cohesive body. They have not, if you like, a class consciousness. And so for the Student Council report to say "The National Student Association is premised on the assumption that the American student community, in pursuing a common aim of knowledge, can work together as a group. . ." is to invent fiction...
...difficult to be anything but surprised," the tall, thin-haired professor commented at a news conference. "Needless to say, I am extremely pleased, and it still is not easy to believe I have really received this honor...