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Author Maurras himself had predicted: "L'Académie est trop grande dame pour m'exclure-The Academy is too great a lady to expel me." Maurras was right. The 20 Academicians put their heads together. Immortal Maurras, they reasoned, had lost his "national dignity." Therefore, his colleagues gravely decided, they did not need to expel him: his seat was already vacant. Then, with greater haste than they had ever shown, the 20 Immortals turned back to the pressing problems of the word...
WINTHROP ELIOTBaumgarten, r.e. r.e., Schutzerf.b., Harris f.b., ReidGilliland, g. g., PrarioPeters, c. c., Batchelderg., Moore g., Haddinf., Cole f., Uhleine., Magraine e., Hunsakerq., Hindle q., Levinh., Peden h., Oatesh., Blanchard h., Whitef., Booth f., Trop...
...just in the way, as the French would say- "De trop...
...wish to offer a judgment of superiority or inferiority. I critize Cambridge more severely than my American friends who have worked there. The unctuous epigram is too apt to be handed out as a substitute for statement. Et surtout, messieurs, pas trop de zele. On balance, though the assets in each case are quite different, there is perhaps not much to choose between the two. But if Cambridge tends too much to the dilettante, Harvard is not dilettante enough. Apart from that, I think that Cambridge, though harassed about its aims, subconsciously postulates certain functions of a university and satisfactorily...
...harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead of by harpoon is comparatively...