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...admissions office a vote of thanks for the changed attitude of the girls," Miss Cook said. The policy of accepting applicants from wider sections of the country and expanding scholarship aid to give educations to those otherwise unable to afford them has been the cause of apathy's retreat, she felt...
...term probably originates in courtroom procedure, where judges may instruct the court stenographer not to record certain testimony or discussion. H. L. Mencken credits New York's Governor Al ("Let's look at the record") Smith for bringing it into wider use. It became popular in Washington during the New Deal...
Saints of Skulduggery. Sam soon moved into a wider field-school. Pockets bulging with Sawyerian equipment ("Fishhooks, twine, white alleys and other marvels, Barlow knives, jew's-harps, hunks of maple sugar, birds' eggs, potato guns, and perhaps a picture of Adam and Eve without a rag"), Sam was soon leader of the school gang and the bane of his teacher's existence...
...hope that Northern liberals will accept him despite his stand against civil rights legislation, and that uncompromising Southern conservatives will not consider him a traitor. He has been straddling the gap inside the Democratic Party of the South for so long that he was a natural prospect for the wider straddle required by the national situation of the Democratic Party. Sparkman, in fact, is so resolute a compromiser that it takes a political micrometer to tell just where he stands...
Wharton found that young koupreys are red, later turn grey. The males later turn jet black. The horns of the cows grow in graceful lyre shape; the bulls' horns spread wider, and they wear them to frazzles by stabbing them fiercely into the ground...