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...Cathedral's survival was all to the good. But even if Chartres had been pulverized to dust, it could probably be rebuilt exactly, down to the remotest crocket and mullion. For Chartres has been one of the most measured, drawn, painted, photographed and modeled buildings in the world. Even if all European records were lost, it could be closely reproduced from U.S. data alone...
...habit of saving their big type for safe topics like rape and burglary, and burying the 'hot' (the ideologically dangerous) news in the back pages. Reporters learn not to scrutinize too closely the sacred cows of the community, and editorial writers husband their mightiest blasts for the remotest wrongs...
...Anyone in the family can get a ballot sent to a serviceman. Even a constitutional requirement that new voters must be able to read the State Constitution in English will cause no trouble. Five lines of the Constitution will be printed on the ballot envelope. A sergeant on the remotest Pacific atoll will be witness enough that a soldier can read...
...voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused, relying on the judgment of Orator Henry Clay, who cried: "It is a work quite beyond the remotest settlement of the United States-if not the moon...
Just in case anyone at all is interested in the going on in that building north and just to the east of Langdell Hall . . . it is the Retch Laboratory where the Army gets all of its Meteorology. Tactical, and Geological training and just in case anyone by the remotest possibility should want to know about that blonde steno who suns herself out front every day about 1000 . . . her name is Dorie Gordon and she is single...