Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears to me that organizations like the Union League Club are as directly responsible as any other agency for such un-American incidents as the bombing of my home and the Cicero riot. When individuals in high places behave as the Union League Club behaves, ordinary citizens follow suit...
...Frank Leahy, the Penn D.A. obviously felt confident that Notre Dame (one of the very rare colleges whose athletic associations were in the black) would play the game his way. And when the Fighting Irish, probably the most popular football team in America, fell into line, the others would follow...
...professor of American Literature, talks that were supposed to last 40 minutes lasted 40 minutes, rather than an hour. Commentary was commentary--not an independent speech. Distinctions were well drawn, the participants kept close to the issues, and there were no heated exchanges with the suggestion of blows to follow...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...
Rabelais had his tongue in his cheek as usual-yet as usual his enunciation of the home truth was unimpaired. To get the marrow out of the masterpiece, it is pretty necessary to follow the dog's example, and in modern times, rather few readers, all in all, have cared to exert enough jaw for that. Rabelais has been put aside, largely untasted, on the snap judgment that he is, as Voltaire said, a "drunken philosopher" who wrote "an extravagant and unintelligent book . . . prodigal of erudition, ordures and boredom." The book which Rabelais merrily dedicated to "Drinkers and . . . Syphilitics...