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...Observer can cut down on the length of its major articles, tighten its writing, and abandon the encyclopedic approach, it might actually serve an important informational function. Diversionary features alone will not hold reader interest; the heart of the paper must be made attractive also...
...being impressionable, but not hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artiul Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince CRIMSON-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Meanwhile, Nkrumah continued to tighten his control over the country, had himself installed as chancellor of the University of Ghana...
Crookery. "The scandal of prosperity," as the Daily Mail calls Britain's housing shortage, stems from years of shortsighted planning and faulty economics. In big industrial cities, factories and office buildings have been allowed to gobble up scarce land in residential areas-and tighten the squeeze by funneling in millions of new citizens. Already overbuilt London, where postwar planners predicted a drop in population, has gained 1,400,000 new residents (total: 8,100,000) in 15 years. More than 100,000 London families are waiting for subsidized low-income housing, which, ironically, is "under-occupied," since a family...
...after those three the league is pretty even, and, if the Crimson can find a second guard and tighten up its defense, it could make some noise. Look what happened to the football team...