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...McMahon-Morse resolution will probably not get far. Last week Foreign Relations committeemen took off for Europe to look into the foreign-aid program. They still have to get out a bill on the program. A number of McMahon's colleagues indicated a singular lack of interest. This is unfortunate, since McMahon's dragon will just be left out in the tall grass, there to flourish on fiction, undisturbed by fact...
...dither in the London Times over collective nouns for animals [TIME, June 4]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 14th-Century romance Sir Nigel speaks of a cete of badgers, a singular of boars, a sounder of swine (when hunted), a nye of pheasants, a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock, a wisp of snipe...
...That singular command...
...eagerness of a man struggling for life," and commended the practice to dyspeptic readers. At a temperance meeting, he noted with amusement a sign reading BEWARE THE FIRST GLASS.** Whitman, a nondenominational Christian, told how he explained the Crucifixion, by signs, to a deaf-mute child: "It was very singular . . . that the mind of this dumb youth seemed to respond at once to the idea...
Other girls had more singular gripes about Harvard. "I've turned into a man-hater since coming to Radcliffe," stated a freshman. "With only Harvard men close at hand, we aren't left much. I wonder if they feel the same way about...