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...three years are more than loath to take up once more the assigned application of a science course. Few indeed there are who have been lax enough to let it slide until then, but those few who have done so, would, at this time in their college career, shout hosannas if they had been required to pass off the requirement when their minds were still freshly imbued with prep school parlance...
...last act Sir Thomas wheeled on the chatterers to shout "Shut up," never missed a beat. Next night he shushed the coughers in the audience. The two performances left Londoners repentant but not Sir Thomas. Said he: "If it happens again I shall halt the orchestra, wait for silence and begin the overture all over again. And I will go on beginning it again until it is played through in silence...
...smaller, elder, staider rivals-Bates, Bowdoin, Colby-offer only liberal arts. Most of Maine's 1,408 students, one-third of whom are women, come from the State's farms and small towns. A student who dresses up is a sissy and one who fails to shout "Hello" at everyone he meets on the campus is a snob. Men wear corduroys and sweaters, add sheepskins and knee boots when it gets cold. For fun they go off on hunting & fishing trips, hoot and stamp their boots in Orono's lone cinema theatre. Each spring freshman and sophomore...
...people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.-Joshua...
...jailed great batches of union leaders, shut up their newspapers & headquarters, along with those of Fascists and Communists. Since even the newsboys on the streets were going for one another's throats. Fascist against Communist, he forbade the newsboys to hawk their papers by name. Hereafter they may shout only "morning pa- per" or "evening paper." Finally he got the Cortes to allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke...