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...inspector jumped as if a tack had crawled up his pants, [sic]. 'Did you say "peace?" I knew I had something here...
Acme Newspictures tried another tack: it put a price on the baby's head. Acme would pay $2,000, it announced, for the first good exclusive picture. The offer went begging. This week Society Photographer Cecil Beaton went to the palace to take pictures of mother & child. But the world was likely to keep right on waiting until the official pictures were released, probably after this week's christening...
Speaking in Ljubljana, Tito took a new tack in his fight against the Cominform by appealing to leftists and liberals everywhere. In effect, he put his finger publicly on the unmentioned bogey of all Communist organizers: the rooted revulsion of the average man against abandoning his national patriotism and espousing so-called international classism...
...thought again of the blue poster and decided on a different tack. Taking a tremendous breath, he hollered "Yale Wins Today!" and ran along the brick sidewalks as the yell boomed back at him from the walls. Green bags turned slowly and stared at him; the gray flannels glared. This time the people turned around and blocked his way; as he crossed the street, all the cars seemed to leap at him. There was some spirit after all. Vag jumped back quickly, but with a smile on his face. Hitching up his tie, he walked confidently back toward...
Educationally, Columbia follows the same tack. Almost the entire first two years of a student's program are prescribed for him in the form of required two-year courses entitled Contemporary Civilization and Humanities--shades of GE. These courses are given by top men from the Social Sciences and Humanities departments. The Contemporary Civilization course was first given in 1919, thus antedating Harvard's similar General Education courses by 27 years. The Humanities course was first given...