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...sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness she observed, the memoirs presented their central character as at once high-strung and imperturbable, gushy but shrewd, a celebrity-hunter, falling for all manner of artistic fakers but preserving a strong streak of hard-headed commonsense. Her European experiences, which ended as she returned to the U. S. filled with dread for the "ugly" future, were of the "not quite" variety-she was almost unfaithful to her architect husband, nearly left him, came close to killing herself...
...timed aerial bombs. Oakes to Stuart, Frank to Kelley are the threats of the day, and their relative success may play a large part in determining the final score. Frank can run, too--but it is the opinion of many Cambridge rooters that he won't outshine a Crimson streak named Stuart...
...Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation, married Emily Sophia Emerson, daughter of Dartmouth's dean, and has been an educator ever since. Serious and white-haired at 52, he takes time off from his Rockefeller duties to serve...
...each side of each intersection Engineer Dorsey removed the straight white stripe, substituted a stripe with a snake-like wriggle. In the white paint are millions of glass beads one twenty-thousandth of an inch in diameter, making the wavy line a streak of fire in the headlights. Observing that 64% of California crashes occur at night, he explained that it would take time to test his signal's efficiency. Typical driver reaction was that of Fire Chief Ralph Scott. Encountering the wriggle for the first time, he snorted to his wife: "You know, I'm not drunk...
...comparative anatomy, and the principle underlying the use of sliding seats in shells avails little in passing Physics C laboratory requirements. Similarly, lengthening of reading pariods will help group one students to cover their special assignments flawlessly, even if it does aid those cursed with a wider lazy streak to make up for long autumn weekends spent at scattered points along the Atlantic Seaboard...