Word: yea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light, in piety, and indeed in humility from the very date on which these historic foundations were raised up to the sight of mankind. Like manna from heaven, endowments have rained down upon us, giving us to know that our thoughts are upright and our actions upward. Yea, is the wonderworking of providence not proof enough of the fruitfulness of our seed...
...Yea, I am in distress
WELL, I went to see my adviser, who helped me select my studies for the yea. That is, he hypnotized me into thinking a lot of things I really don't see why I should know. However, as I don't seem to have what he called a 'startling predilection' for anything (my entrance exams divulged this), and as he is a pleasant young man who invited me to dinner next week, I allowed myself to be influenced...
Life in Winthrop is active. Early in the fall each resident tutor plays host to the undergraduates in his particular entry, mixing drinks with conversation. There are also a number of House "mixers" and dances throughout the yea, and one or two general outings. This year, for example, on the Friday night before the Princeton game house members retired to a suburban inn for an enjoyable evening of dancing. Special dinners are also often arranged, following which prominent guests, Joseph Alsop being the most recent, speak in the Junior Common Room...
...full of bull, and it costs five cents." At crowded Workingmen's Hall in his native East Baltimore, D'Alesandro cockily proclaimed: "Editorials don't win elections, but paved streets win elections. Are your streets paved? Is your garbage being collected?" Roared the crowd: "Yea, Tommy!" Last week on election day, street-paving overcame the press: by 25,000 votes. Tommy D'Alesandro and his garbage collectors eclipsed Sam Hopkins...