Word: therefrom
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...condition. Back in Cairo, Ramses II went on display again, along with a plaque noting that in 1258 B.C. he and Hattusilis, great chief of the Hittites, ended a 20-year war with an agreement that neither would pass into the land of the other "or take anything therefrom." "Good, good," nodded Sadat, reading the plaque. Of course. It was a Middle East agreement 3,236 years older than his own Camp David concordat with Israel's Menachem Begin...
...Lance line and harshly assailed Percy: "On September 9, Senator Percy gave every indication that Lance was a tax fraud cheat, and in his mellifluous tones he said well, you know, I am not saying directly that you are a tax cheat, I am saying inferences can be drawn therefrom. Yesterday, Senator Percy said, 'I apologize for any anguish I may have caused you over the weekend.' Marvelous! We're playing with a man's character and his decency and reputation here. The charge of being a tax fraud will linger around Mr. Lance...
...function for which the Bursars card was originally designed," a friend of ours who ought to know tells us. "And that is to afford each student in the University the opportunity to have a positive form of identification with which to gain access to University libraries, charge books therefrom, and, if the student is on board contract, to eat in the University dining halls. That is the reason why, you will note, we have chosen to draw a formal distinction between the "Bursars cards" available at Harvard, and the "Student Identification" cards routinely available elsewhere. It's not just another...
When British Colonialist Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, he left the world two legacies: a South African mining empire to keep the women of the world in diamonds and a bequest to use the profits therefrom to educate at Oxford University, "the best men for the world's fight." But times change. And this year, to conform with a 1975 act by the British Parliament, Rhodes scholarships are being awarded for the first time to women. Among the 32 American winners named last week, 13 are female. One, Yale's Sarah Deutsch, concedes her image of a Rhodes...
...meatballs were cut away from a jockstrap and eaten; that residents of the Yale-New Haven Mental Hospital, on evening leave, presented the guest of honor with a painting entitled The Criminal Penis Entering the Mouth of the Nun; and that the "Scriptures of the Holy Rectum," or excerpts therefrom, were read aloud to the assembled body...