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...Keswick, England, 71-year-old Robert Just swore that he got rid of his rheumatism by bedding down every night for a week with a few dozen resentful bees...
...speech to combine realism with authority, proved himself yesterday to be a good Englishman and a good European. His national post-war policy endorsed in fact if not in name the Beveridge Plan for compulsory social security; he pledged himself to abolish the old school tie tradition, to rid England of drones, whether they be aristocrats or pub crawlers. And showing the type of realism which differentiates constructive planning from political promises, he offered a definite financial program calling for high taxes and stabilized prices to avoid inflation. Social legislation would not be allowed to kill private enterprise...
...second half brought the turning point in 1942-1943 Harvard basketball, and the Merriwell fadeout of Athletic Council, PBH, Student Council president, Captain Bunks Burditt. After Princeton's high-scoring Palmer, who led with 16 points, had put his team seven up from the foul line, Burditt rid of the troublesome mask, and Hyde, assisted by Dillon and Hennessey, rampaged for a total of 13 points while the Tiger big guns, outjumped under the backboards and their shooting erratic as a result of Crimson defensive tenacity, were fatally silent...
...John Squire, like all poets, loves the euphonious past participles of our irregular verbs. So do I. But . . . English usage is just what we need to get rid of. It is overloaded with unnecessary grammar; and our mad persistence in trying to spell the sounds of our speech costs us the price of a fleet of battleships every year in writing and printing superfluous letters. The most civilized nation in the world, the Chinese, have taken our language in hand for business purposes and produced an English with a minimum of grammar...
Fellow Creature. In Petrusberg, South Africa, churchgoers voted not to get rid of a friend-a cobra who lived in the ceiling, always came out to listen when the organist played the organ's flute stops, fled back to its hole when the preaching started...