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...With the approval of the appropriate Administrative Board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, final credit for the term will be given on the basis of a cumulative grade reported in the case of any student who presents evidence tha the ahs been ordered to active duty in the armed forces between December 7th and the date of the mid-year examination...
Gentmun, suh, draw yo'selves up a chair and have a mint julep. You all is gonna need a stiff reenforcement to carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...
...week progressed the Franco-Thaï quarrel grew into an ironic kettle-storm which somehow summed up all the topsy-turvy diplomatic scrambles of 1940. The same France which could once send a stern note to an Eastern potentate and get presents, favors, concessions in return, meekly begged ratification of a non-aggression pact of a country whose name sounded and politics looked something like Toyland. Thailand ignored the request. Its Government at Bangkok grew insistent on the subject of its claims against Indo-China. It looked as if mighty France might have to give in to the aggression...
...motor car to a bag of potatoes. Mr. Richards believes metaphors (comparisons) are the root of thinking, and that no metaphor is absurd if there is a specific and intelligible link between the things compared. Mr. Richards recalls that a Harvard English professor once christened his ancient Ford Thaïs (after the heroine of Anatole France's story) because "she had been possessed of many." "If we can do that to a car, successfully," twinkles Mr. Richards, "what limits can we confidently set to metaphor...
...less than one-fourth of that sum went to the insurance agency. In a suit brought by the city against Messrs. Curley & Santosuosso, Judge Fosdick found tha't the $85,000 had been split: 1) $20,000 to the Brown Agency, 2) $20,000 to Lawyer Santosuosso, 3) $15,000 to one Frederick Graves, a Brown representative. 4) $30,000 to Mayor Curley. According to Mr. Graves, Mayor Curley had asked before approving the settlement: "What is there in this...