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...Willis. Businessmen and educators chimed in to doubt the wisdom of dropping an expert administrator under pressure from one minority over one issue. The board majority, which had hoped to make Willis compromise on Negro demands but never intended to lose him, recognized that it was out on a limb and refused his resignation. After a week of reconsidering, Superintendent Willis withdrew...
...work. In the past seventy-five or one hundred years, professional learning has gathered up and arranged the facts for much of the humane discipline. The scholar too often finds himself able only to rehash old stories or, like Miss Ward, to go dangerously far out on a logical limb; rarely can be relate his learning to the constant problems of man-kind. For all its erudition and its technicality, all its grace and intelligence, the quality most to be valued in John Keats is that as biography it can, in Johnson's words, be "put to use." John Keats...
Korea. Home with the wooden limb...
...then. Heh heh." "That's right," the voice answers, after a meaningful pause, and a chorus of 15 swings into he clinching jingle: Where'd you get the idea You could make it by yourself? Doesn't it get a little lonely, sometimes, Out on that limb . . . without Him . . . It's a great life but it could be greater, Why try and go it alone? The blessings you lose may be your...
...completely severed when a freight train threw him against a bridge abutment. Though several similar operations have been tried since then, the reimplantation of "Red"' Knowles's arm by a team of plastic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital is still the most successful case involving a whole limb...