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they learn much, factually, about the problems of retirement and provision for old age, and, psychologically, in the sharing of their thoughts on retirement


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the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present


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functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical


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packed cells are given to severely anemic patients in order to avoid overloading the circulatory system with too much fluid


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the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply


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the investment banker who handles a rights offering usually agrees to buy any shares not bought by shareholders


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During the Cold War, the Soviets routinely barrage jammed to interfere with transmissions from the West


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Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people- Eleanor Roosevelt


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top fermentation uses a yeast that ferments at higher temperatures than that used for bottom fermentation


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for centuries jellies have figured importantly among English desserts, particularly upon festive occasion


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in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps


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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself- George Meredith


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a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure


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it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note- Times Litt. Sup.


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the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out


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a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.


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the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness


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when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false?


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three of these brushes were approximately 120 feet apart and the fourth diametrically opposite to one of the three


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the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next


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in your shirtsleevesmeans you are not wearing anything over your shirt; in hot weather they dined in their shirtsleeves


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the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held


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while the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something


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postexposure prophylaxis is an integral part of the pharmacopeia in preventing severe disease after acute infections


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When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior


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there were Turk's head lilies and patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set capriciously in the green sea


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their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them


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they protested that the nonproliferation treaty was just a plot to maintain the hegemony of those who already had nuclear weapons


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printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters


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the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846


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my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally- B.N.Cardozo


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the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure


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editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones-G. B. Shaw


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after implantation of the blastocyst in the uterine wall the trophoblast divides into two layers, the chorion and the placenta


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little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara- Scientific Monthly


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`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'


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`Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily


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more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event itself


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the novel was made into a film in 1943 and again in 1967; I prefer the former version to the latter one


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stock options are not much use as an incentive if the price at which they can be exercised is out of reach


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he was seen by a shepherd, gamely negotiating a particularly tricky section of the mountain road to San Doloroso


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stewed in its petty provincialism untouched by the brisk debates that stirred the old world- V.L.Parrington


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parties to a civil union have all the same benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Vermont law as spouses in a marriage


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whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could


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his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed


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she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it- David Denby


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Handel achieves a huge breadth of musical thought when composing almost mechanistically in the least weighty of styles


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the amount of energy falling on the earth is given by the solar constant, but very little use has been made of solar energy


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late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy


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essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions- B.K.Malinowski


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he silenced the whisperings which connected her, untruly and unfairly, with his separation from his wife


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Bismarck was constantly criticised by the more liberal newspapers, and he retaliated by passing an emergency decree that effectually muzzled the press


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before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer


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the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion


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in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room


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but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal


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the art book has art to sell, insinuatingly, and for a purpose, like the American muse, which has in fact a tradition to sell, and one which doesn't exist, in painting


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The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs; Some travelers pass through the desert


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some people have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil- Samuel Johnson


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applicants may qualify to take the New York bar examination by graduating from an approved law school


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Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man


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His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone


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for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters


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she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully


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the insurance company says that you need a written referral from your physician before seeing a specialist


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he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held


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the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line


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a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term


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inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles


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behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies


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Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer- James Fenimore Cooper


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a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization- Martin Luther King Jr.


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the monistic school would regard national law and international law as an integrated whole- J.S.Roucek


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psychopharmacologists discovered that amine reuptake is a process that inactivates monoamine neurotransmitters


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old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built


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the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting- Springfield (Mass.) Union


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Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry


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in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance- John Ruskin


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dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste


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the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups


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the capsular ligament is a sac surrounding the articular cavity of a freely movable joint and attached to the bones


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in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'


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the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'


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a black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium


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a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer


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the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work- British Book News


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in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used


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gave up our seats on the plane and in return received several hundred dollars and seats on the next plane out


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for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use


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to insure operational security the members of adjacent terrorist cells usually don't know each other or the identity of their leadership


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the average American...is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal and economic and governmental actions...beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control


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there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute- Anita Diamant


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the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'


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an equally gallant little wife and mother uncomplainingly keeping up the production of tasty and nourishing meals


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many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate the rest of the world


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whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually


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the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle


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The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens


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quarks have not been observed directly but theoretical predictions based on their existence have been confirmed experimentally


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an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist- Leonard Michaels


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government will not be efficient unless the people as a whole accept leadership loyally and enthusiastically


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in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity


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beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings


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his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son-Anna Jameson


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`We're not married, not really married,' she said, and slowly, reluctantly, disjointedly it came out


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a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day- E.A.Poe


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closed-angle glaucoma can cause a rapid buildup of high intraocular pressure that results in permanent visual damage in a couple of days


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Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression


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a clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes


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these three pions may actually be joined together transiently as a compound particle during the interchange process


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A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T.S.Eliot


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when the measured speech of the chorus passes over into song the tones are, remotely but unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy


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the assistant masters formed a committee of their own to consider what could be done educationally for the town


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in villages, the new pipeline marks the end of water as a precious liquid, to be dispensed frugally, weighed out drop by drop


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how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years- Dashiell Hammett


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every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty- John D.Rockefeller Jr


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the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war- G.C.Marshall


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her husband seemed to know many of the people who were named, but he replied evasively when asked who they were


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he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts


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representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people


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a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.


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the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth


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in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase


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the disturbing thing about the Minister's behavior is that far from being artificial, it too often rings frighteningly true


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she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own


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the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century


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messengers were moving unobtrusively over the jet-black mountain ranges, bearing confidential tidings from sheikhdom to sheikhdom


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his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists- Douglas Bush


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his voice had no trace of the drawl that you would expect to find in a fashionably dressed young man


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molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities


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public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern


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the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant- Walter Lippman


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a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail


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limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology- P.S.Welch


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containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975


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might I respectfully suggest to the Town Council that they should adopt a policy of masterly inactivity?


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one paper scurrilously described how Edward was neglecting a bereaved mother to dance attendance on Wally


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such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin


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affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision


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adenomatous polyps are visible protrusions that can develop on the mucosal surface of the colon or rectum


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After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference


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of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced


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a Hampshire farmer had fowls of different breeds, including Dorkings, and he discriminated ingeniously between the `dark ones' and the `white ones'


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something ponderable from the outer world--something of which we can say that its weight is so and so- James Jeans


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in ten years' time the Oxbridge mathematicians, scientists, and engineers will not be much more significant numerically than the Oxbridge medical schools are now


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he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative


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the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred , rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway


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they have begun, however reluctantly, to acknowledge the legitimacy of some of the opposition's concerns


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Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group


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the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells--E. A. Poe


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the spirit of God knew very well that there was a deeper question to be settled before there could be the intervention in power that was so ardently desired


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the tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing the several covenants herein on his part contained shall peaceably hold and enjoy the demised premises


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every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind-William James


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since pregnancy cannot happen if sperm are kept out of the vagina, outercourse is one method of birth control


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the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on


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when Ghandi was asked what he thought of Western civilization he said he thought it would be a good idea


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a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology- Walter Lippman


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`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization


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Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war


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when the screen font resembles a printed font a document may look approximately the same on the screen as it will when printed


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this tradition has left its mark indelibly upon the social, political, educational and industrial fabric of this country


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she was looking very young tonight, and, as usual, indescribably beautiful, in a simple strapless dress of a green and white silky cotton


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experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer


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the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson


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the first seven councils through 787 are considered to be ecumenical councils by both the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church but the next fourteen councils are considered ecumenical only by the Roman Catholic church


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the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough


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the track record for the mile and a half at Belmont is 2 minutes 24 seconds held by Secretariat since 1973


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I sent for the sergeant of the platoon both men were in and asked him to try to find out discreetly what lay behind this


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the principle of surprise is the most used and misused of all the principles of war- H.H.Arnold &amp; I.C.Eaker


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I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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catarrhal fever is any of several respiratory or oral diseases of livestock such as bluetongue in horses and sheep


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sent to jail for two years, he has quixotically refused to clear himself by betraying his colleagues


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a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light- James Jeans


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written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers-Aldous Huxley


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since blocks are often defined as a single sector, the terms `block' and `sector' are sometimes used interchangeably


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giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction


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he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him


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an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation-LewisMumford


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phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria


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sterling transferability affords a means of multilateral settlement for....trade between nondollar countries


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these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth- Janet Flanner


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Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind


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the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation


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the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence


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industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring


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She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated


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the first intifada ended when Israel granted limited autonomy to the Palestine National Authority in 1993


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in an optimization problem we seek values of the variables that lead to an optimal value of the function that is to be optimized


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people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade


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the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme


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in addition to accounting and auditing, CPAs also prepare tax returns for individuals and corporations


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the audience was held by the substance of the play rather than by the superficies of the production-R.W.Speaight


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I was indulgently advised to give the kids what they wanted unless I wished my son to be socially ostracised


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the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds


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sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares- A.Lincoln


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what arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically


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Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle


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a scarf was tied round her head but the rebellious curl had escaped and hung damply over her left eye


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this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day


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without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher


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thermoplastic materials can be remelted and cooled time after time without undergoing any appreciable chemical change


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Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone


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the general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis


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the jeweler's mind game is to convince lovers that the size of a gemstone reflects the depth of their feelings


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we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background


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the judge's ruling was handed down in a preliminary hearing rather than a trial and was therefore unappealable


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the presence or absence of sex chromatin in cells obtained by amniocentesis makes it possible to determine the sex of a fetus


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when you add in all the computer accessories you are going to need the computer gets pretty expensive


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The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard


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the best doctors would stay resentfully out of the national service, refusing to become the minions of a Minister


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Hubel and Wiesel have found cells that respond differentially according to the direction in which a stimulus is moved across the retina


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screen savers prevent the damage that occurs when the same areas of light and dark are displayed too long


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as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed


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we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower


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the nonrestrictive clause in `I always buy his books, which have influenced me greatly,' refers to his books generally and adds an additional fact about them


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a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket


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al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s


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the government's objective is to insure a genuinely level playing field for American industry and commerce in Europe


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the required influence lines are found by subjecting the model to small displacements horizontally, vertically and rotationally


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entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity


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the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century


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demands for some form of separatism on grounds of religion have been perceived as a threat to mainstream education


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the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection


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film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s


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by the time the chsild faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words


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words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message- R.Rommetveit


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a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision--Kenneth Jernigan


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he caught the motorcycles in the full glare of his headlights, braked and slipped purposefully out of the car


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Henriette saw the weaving figure of an Apache warrior reel nakedly on a pony and rush by with a rifle raised


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United States troops now carry atropine and autoinjectors in their first-aid kits to use in case of organophosphate nerve agent poisoning


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his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it


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Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory


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the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes- Edith Wharton


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he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels


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mind has become self-reproducing through man's capacity to transmit experience and its products cumulatively


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Every year the local orchestra and choir perform the `Messiah' and the audience is invited to sing along


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The early Church not unnaturally adopted the position that failure to see the messianic character of his work was really caused by the people's own blindness


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Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy


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the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions


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unchivalrously, the husbands who had to provide such innocent indulgences eventually began to count the costs


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the medulla oblongata is the most vital part of the brain because it contains centers controlling breathing and heart functioning


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no one has a right to shout `fire' in a crowded theater when there is no fire because such an action would pose a clear and present danger to public safety


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Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times


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his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists- Douglas Bush


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After the king's body had been exhumed and tested to traces of poison, it was reburied in the same spot


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unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated


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the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle


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the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing


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to prove subordination of perjury you must prove the perjury and also prove that the perjured statement was procured by the accused suborner who knew that it would be false


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he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person


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the first Secretary of Health and Human Services was Patricia Roberts Harris who was appointed by Carter


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to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely


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a contextual definition of `legal duty' might be `X has a legal duty to do Y means that X is required to do Y by a contract relationship that would be upheld in a court of law'


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when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite


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the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote


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the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research


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each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit


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adult blood pressure is considered normal at 120/80 where the first number is the systolic pressure and the second is the diastolic pressure


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I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us


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because some portions of the cover page are printed in red ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red herring


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No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried- Theodore Roosevelt


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Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien


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the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students


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whatever the flavor or color of your local paper, do remember that these are read avidly for local information


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the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name- Bill Beatty


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on the rough sea ice you may on an unshadowed day...fall over a chunk of ice that is kneehigh- Vilhjalmur Stefansson


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the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever


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The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect


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related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces


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`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'


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the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival


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years ago in her white-painted infancy it must have hung presentably on the deck of some luxury liner


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the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances


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I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating


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a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)


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poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form- Frederick W. Robertson


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deposits of sediment in gulfs and seas rather than in the ocean proper are known as thalassic deposits- Scientific American


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in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday


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rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times- J.L.T.C.Spence


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it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true- B. Russell


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international law...only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law- J.L.kuntz


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an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time- David Cannadine


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the history of the play throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century is monotonously uneventful


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boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law


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when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny


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the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades- Ambrose Bierce


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eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt


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the Prime Minister was wearing a grey suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard


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the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)


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Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites


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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own--Jonathan Swift


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Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time


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a prose statement of fact is unidimensional, its value being measured wholly in terms of its truth- Mary Sheehan


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in typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements


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The candidate red-eyed from California to the East Coast the night before the election to give a last stump speech


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Santo Domingo is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the Americas with the oldest cathedral and the oldest hospital and the oldest monastery in the Western Hemisphere


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the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist


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Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad- Christina Rossetti


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a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced


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gone was the casually dressed Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was immaculately tailored


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to mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable


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a supersonic bomber flies so fast that it must release its bombs while the target is still over the horizon


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you write as if this fact whilst inarguably forever condemning me to the ranks of Bohemianism nevertheless earned for me the right of entry into any company


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a dextral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the observer


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the geological environment is the primary factor in determining the character of a country not only topographically but historically


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the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state


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The egg fertilized in vitro implanted in the uterus of the birth mother with no further complications


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once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place


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it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art


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the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil


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some reform-minded Islamic scholars believe that reopening ijtihad is a prerequisite for the survival of Islam


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the rhythm of physiological time is not modifiable except by interference with certain fundamental processes- Alexis Carrel


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some astronomers believe that the solar system was formed by spallation when the sun was a very young star


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the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them


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the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power


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Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy


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we became mortgagors when the bank accepted our mortgage and loaned us the money to buy our new home


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he was Brentford's defensive star in pluckily holding out the determined Reading raids for long periods


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had established herself in her career at the price of being so undomestic she didn't even know how to light the oven


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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this


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possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores


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you can obtain a transcript of this radio program by sending a self-addressed envelope to the station


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quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture


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give me any peaches you don't want; give me whatever peaches you don't want; no milk whatsoever is left


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what is singular about his use of them is that no other artist, of his time or any other, has painted them so directly, intimately and pertinently


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farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season


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the subject matter is sexual activity of any overt kind, which is depicted as inherently desirable and exciting


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oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly undermined the attempt...to align Germany with the Western democracies- C.G.Bowers


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without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it.


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to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works


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he was in bondage to fear:; he sought release from his bondage to Satan; a self freed from the bondage of time


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the landscape unit drawn diagrammatically illustrates the gentle rolling relief, with a peat-filled basin


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in the Ptolemaic system of planetary motion the earth is fixed as the center of the universe with the sun and moon and planets revolving around it


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`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew


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The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it--Robert Frost


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Usuli Shiism produced the politically active caste of priests that is a distinctive feature of Iranian Shiism


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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics--Franklin D. Roosevelt


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an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom


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quarrels and dissensions ensued among the cast, most of whom hurriedly and shamefacedly handed over their parts to understudies


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if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot


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a deep well; surrounded by a deep yard; hit the ball to deep center field; in deep space; waist-deep


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the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior


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there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place


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a person struck by a log as it was thrown onto a road could maintain trespass against the thrower but one who was hurt by stumbling over it could maintain and action on the case


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the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues


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if they deposit these shares in the scheme they will get further buckshee shares on a one-for-one basis- Economist


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the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems- Nathaniel Hawthorne


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a simplex word has no affixes and is not part of a compound--like `boy' compared with `boyish' or `house' compared with `houseboat'


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I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light-Joe Hing Lowe


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academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged


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technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge


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electromagnetism was discovered when it was observed that a copper wire carrying an electric current can magnetize pieces of iron or steel near it


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pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville


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I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom.


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the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do


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whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative


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in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future


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in this painting, the relationship of the upper part of the body to the lower is uneasy and the right thigh seems unwarrantably stressed


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heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries


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the problem of absorbing immigrants harmoniously into British society is as important to the immigrants as to the British


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the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress- Bertrand Russell


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a being of whom the forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle


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the ministry considers that contributions to such a fund should be met from voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily levied.


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she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed


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the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government- United States Constitution


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a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God


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we may diligently observe the Lord's supper on the first day of the week, diligently preach the gospel, or minister to the saint


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since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded


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these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey


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the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern


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fragmentation slows system performance because it takes extra time to locate and assemble the parts of the fragmented file


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a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin- Jasper Griffin


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Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper--Ted Nelson


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`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in `The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or `Scottish mountains'


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`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as `Scotch broth' or `Scotch whiskey' or `Scotch plaid'


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『Scotch』は、スコットランド人には不評で、『Scotch broth』、『Scotch whiskey』、または、『Scotch plaid』といった固定表現を除けば、主にスコットランド外部で使われている


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motives inspired by Mammon were often inextricably blended with things pertaining to Caesar and to God


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ambulance drivers are paramedical to give emergency medical aid; ambulance drivers are paramedical personnel


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there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism


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round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him


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this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people


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tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork; a vexatious child; it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong


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I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.- `Chanticler' by Rostand


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the fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator


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MDMA is often used at parties because it enables partygoers to remain active for long periods of time


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the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry


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Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym


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the two specimens are actually different from each other but the differences are almost indistinguishable


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The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election


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they claimed that acrylamide is produced when certain carbohydrates are baked or fried at high temperatures


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as soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema, the creed of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily


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a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated


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a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened


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Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights- Maria Weston Chapman


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the compensating balance increases the effective interest rate to the bank since the net amount loaned is reduced but the interest paid is unchanged


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the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare


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a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable


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people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons...-G.B.Shaw


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the countries agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency, replacing previous barter arrangements


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def:
adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased


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I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war- FDR


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the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause


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each of the four legs contains a simple screw jack with a thrust bearing that is operated telescopically inside of two tubes


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in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign


