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...here asking." This phrase is still repeated by the candidate dozens of times a day all through the State. It is the not ridiculous to suggest that Ted could win the election with the name Edward Moore. It is the nomination that Edward Moore never could have gotten...
Passersby stared curiously; many smiled or laughed. One couple stood watching the picketers for a long time and then said to one of the group: "We've just gotten the point. We'll eat somewhere else...
...obvious result is a feeling among the smart set that mink has become ordinary. Says one fashion leader: "It's gotten to be nothing more than a seedy status symbol." Sniffs another: "Everybody in kingdom come has one. I never saw so many old sides and ears in my life. Of course, it is becoming to just everybody -even those little old poodles with the jeweled mink collars...
...upperclassman about his first three weeks at Harvard and the chances are he will tell you they were tense, scary weeks when about the only persons he knew were his roommates and boys he had met before coming to Cambridge. Not so in the Yard today. The freshmen have gotten to know each other very quickly. When asked if they feel somewhat alone and isolated, most freshman will tell you "of course not -- I've met so many exciting and interesting people...
...nations that belong to the International Monetary Fund found something new to worry about. Only a few months ago, many of them had been fearful that the U.S. dollar was growing too weak to maintain its role as the major world trading currency. Now, they agreed, the dollar had gotten strong again-in fact, some thought, dangerously strong...