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Observation in experimental physic by my goody while taking up the ashes: "I thinks the ashes flies worse when they're warm than when they're cold, as I notices it." [Fact.] Who can explain...
Professor in international law (after a long and labored attempt to explain "legitimate consideration"): And now, sir! perhaps you will agree with me when I sum it up in the phrase quid pro quo. Student, desperately. Yes sir! I was of the opinion it was something of that nature...
THEN there were kisses and sighs, loving looks and words of passion. It was necessary to admire the fate which had brought together these two, so well suited one to another; and to explain the thoughts of each since their parting a few hours before...
...Good heavens!" I answered in exasperation, "I have n't time to explain. Mr. Smilin, you are a proficient in Pretty Pol. Econ. Can you not tell me what sort of a garment suits best a very unproductive consumer...
...wanting in these courses, and there can be but few who contemplate with the same satisfaction the portion of their time given to a one-hour study and that devoted to a three-hour course. In addition to the certainty that, for the reasons we have above tried to explain, a one-hour course requires a greater amount of labor to accomplish a given amount of work, there is a tendency among instructors to pile up the work in their one-hour courses. With them an elective is an elective, and, without the instructor's actually intending it, the work...