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...owners of cars with odd-numbered plates. In order to prevent obsessive "topping off' of tanks, a minimum purchase of half a tankful, or $3 worth, often must be made. Compliance is generally voluntary, but New Jersey and Maryland joined Hawaii in setting up mandatory systems backed by stiff fines of up to $1,000 on station owners or motorists who are caught acting in violation of the rules...
...were allowed only four hours of sleep. There was rough physical work to be done, and six to eight hours of meditation each day. Meditation suggests tranquillity not torture, but sitting motionless for even a few minutes in an approximation of the lotus position left the author's stiff Western legs cramped and shaking. The younger Japanese monks did not have a much better time of it. The holiest and most arduous week of the year-Roha-tsu-came in December. The period of sleep was reduced to two hours, from midnight to 2 a.m. The monks meditated...
...have been so overpowering this season that their closest meet was against Dartmouth back in early December, an 80-33 shellacking of the Big Green. Since then the meets have resembled target practice at point blank range. Johns Hopkins, Navy, Army and Springfield, teams which in past years provided stiff competition, have all found themselves hopelessly outclassed. But the point is that Harvard is that good; the other teams are not that...
...concern, is that I had to abandon my natural language, my natural idiom, my rich, infinitely rich and docile Russian tongue, for a second-rate brand of English. He feels caught between Russian, for which he no longer has an audience, and English, which to him still feels "stiff and artificial," however brilliant his success with...
...deliberates and moves the brush intent upon making a picture, misses to a still greater extent the art of painting, while he who cogitates and moves the brush without such intentions, reaches the art of painting. His hands will not get stiff; his heart will not grow cold; without knowing how, he accomplishes...