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...largely Melville's, but they rattle unconvincingly in the mouths of hollowed-out characters. Writes the editor: "The sentence structure and punctuation have been simplified. In some instances, for the sake of clarity, rearrangement of the Moby Dick sequence of events was made. Words of infrequent use and unfamiliar terms were screened; questionable words were checked in Thorndike's The Teacher's Word Book of 20,000 Words...
Billows & Pillows. In his portrait, Author Warner tells a great many of the old Nelson stories, and some unfamiliar ones. Example: as a midshipman at 14, Nelson found himself on an expedition to the Arctic. He tried to kill a polar bear to get its skin for his father. He missed the beast with his first shot and wanted to clobber it with a clubbed musket...
...have named several men who are officers of the American Humanist Association. For those unfamiliar with the A.H.A. it can be stated that it is the national organization of Humanists, with headquarters at Yellow Springs, Ohio, which corresponds in the field of Humanism to our other national societies in the respective fields of the several arts and sciences. Membership in the A.H.A. is open to all in sympathy with its viewpoint and objectives, and its strong representation in academic and professional circles constitutes impressive evidence of the important position which Naturalistic Humanism has attained in contemporary American thought. Harold...
...other matches, Crimson golfers were outclassed. Unfamiliar with the wet, well-trapped holes, they had virtually no chance of defeating their more seasoned opponents, and most of them lost by tremendous margins...
...hiding the facts about Negro crime, the "conspiracy of concealment" helps blur the causes of it. Negro leaders themselves often put forward explanations that are oversimple. Some hold that Negro crime is largely the result of migrations from the South: in the unfamiliar environment of the North, the argument runs, Negroes tend to be more crime-prone, just like white immigrants from abroad. But in fact, some studies have shown that, contrary to popular conviction, crime rates among foreign-born whites were lower than among U.S.-born whites...