Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various method whereby the crafty student attempts to show than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. It is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might mean something to a grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay which means nothing at all to him and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...front-line taxpayers some R & R from the financial wars. By a lopsided vote of 394 to 30, the House approved a bill that would ultimately give citizens $9.2 billion worth of relief, by lowering certain tax payments, and the Treasury $6.9 billion worth of reform, by plugging various loopholes...
...enough qualified black judges to fill the benches in the higher courts. As a result, most of the senior judges are white -though many of them, like Skinner, have become citizens of the countries in which they serve. According to present standards, black law students, now in the various national universities, will not be eligible to become judges for another five years...
...professors, scientists. In 1900, he became acquainted with several Roman Catholic clergymen at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Philadelphia suburb of Overbrook, and eagerly seized the opportunity to portray four clerics as well as a prominent Catholic layman. For Eakins, it was a rare chance to examine various personalities within a close-knit group. For this reason, the pictures have long held a special fascination for those who knew of their existence. But in the cloistered halls of the seminary where they hung, few people ever saw them...
...Jews can fight the British. Pursewarden, who knows of their treachery, keeps silent, apparently out of love for Justine. Melissa meanwhile goes off to a TB clinic, and Nessim's brother (Robert Forster) is assassinated by his own people. And so it goes for another hour until various deaths and suicides bring Justine to an abrupt conclusion...