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...four years Henry Dunn has been sending books to needy libraries abroad. He began it after hearing a Chinese coed describe the plight of her country's universities. Dunn straightway started collecting 7,000 volumes for Lingnan University in Canton, whose library had been burned by the Japanese...
...thou shalt know which is the place by the multitude, and the flag staffs, and by the geese which play in the infield; and thou shalt enter in straightway...
...There look neither to the right nor to the left; but go straightway into the back of the Grand Stand, to the place which is called the Paddock...
...most remarkable thing about the character of the English," said an Indian writer, reviewing the years of British rule in his home country, "is their zeal for writing essays about the English character. This launches one straightway into the melancholy conjecture that self-admiration is the primary British failing...
From the 20-Yard Line. Harry Truman had taken a tremendous political gamble. One risk was that the special session might backfire on the Democrats: the Republicans might straightway haul up the President's civil rights program and let the Southern Democrats filibuster it -and the session - to death. Another was that Republicans might run away with the session. Already in the works were Republican plans for more investigations of the Democratic Administration...