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Examinations take their toll again tomorrow. The CRIMSON will not be snuggling on doorsteps Wednesday as is its wont, but one can look for his regular edition of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily on Thursday morning...
...interest in us (colored troops in Leghorn) than we had formerly experienced. He instituted many changes and improvements, came around to ask individual G.I.s among us how they were getting on, and in other ways treated us as American soldiers (which type of treatment it was not always our wont to receive). He was a standout...
That profound thinker, Henry Wallace, darling of the totalitarian liberals,* is wont to contrast political democracy in the U.S. with the "economic democracy" of the Soviet Union...
...Late? President Truman had been under heavy pressure from two sides: those who wanted all-out aid for Chiang and those who wanted to cut present U.S. help still further. The President might have thought that, as is his wont, he was taking a position squarely in the middle. Actually, he was endorsing a policy which is already out of date...
Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was once Rodin's secretary, described what his boss was after: "Rodin assumed that if caught quickly, the simple movements of the model . . . contain the strength of an expression which is not surmised, because one is not wont to follow it with intense and constant attention. By not permitting his eyes to leave the model for an instant, and by allowing his quick and trained hand free play over the drawing paper, Rodin seized an enormous number of never before observed and hitherto unrecorded gestures of which the radiating force of expression was immense...