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...country pill-roller who is guiltless, but parttles of the hundreds he has "killed' in his practice. Further contrast comes when Mason scampers behind a railing to hide his crime from a gardener coming home whistling hymns. The gardener, by the way, is the only one who doesn't succumb to the Mason Look, but perhaps he just doesn't believe in fads...
Enactment of the Barnes Bill would danger-signal to nations everywhere that "the American people had begun to succumb to a panic" destructive of "the whole basis for our success in a worldwide competition with an alien and hostile ideology." President Conant testified at the State House yesterday before the joint House-Senate Committee on Education...
Serrell Hillman, who was assigned to do the union's history, had trouble overcoming a desire to succumb to Petrillo's histrionics. Once, when a flying finger grazed him, he couldn't help smiling. Petrillo paused. "So," he murmured, effectively lowering his voice to match the phrase, "he laughs. Why do you laugh, kid?" Hillman explained that he had been impressed by the dramatic effects. "Oh," said the musicians' boss, "you should see me when I'm really worked...
...that the best bet on nine out of any ten games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick Harlow's 1947 forces is bound to succumb to a feeling of exuberant hope...
...that the best bet on nine out of any tea games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular may, well be outweighed by every eleven it faces, even Western Maryland and Dartmouth, the average follower of Dick Harlow's 1947 forces is bound to succumb to a feeling of exuberant hope...