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...instruction' programme--the same indulgence in the social whirl, and the same maturing process as the old days." With Cambridge looking "worse than basic training with the millions of men," the Radcliffe interest in the opposite sex and consequent social whirl is understandable. The "maturing process," however, is a singular something Miss Brott, a biochemistry major, didn't work up in the laboratory. "The Radcliffe girl comes here from high-school, a sweet young thing and all of that, and seems to age overnight. The difference between the Freshman and the Junior is amazing...
Only a few months ago, Winston Churchill shocked America and the world by proposing the formation of an Anglo-American bloc predicated on singular hostility toward the Soviet Union. Churchill must be more than gratified today to find Jimmy Byrnes, the little man's little man, securely entrenched in Ernie Bevin's ample vest pocket...
Tall, brown-haired Dr. Ivanissevich, who had been Peron's personal physician before becoming a diplomat, made it plain that this notion had been only a notion. "You should know," he said, "through the lips of a man who possesses the singular merit of never having lied, the truth regarding the Argentine Republic...
Said Joe Curran ruefully, in the third person singular: "While Curran may have been elected this time, if he doesn't get into line, the next elections he is liable to be up in the crow's-nest." More likely, thought some of Joe's friends, he would be hanging from the yardarm...
...father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that he has an Italian wife still living. But the singular Quakeress and the bigamist decide that this really does not matter...