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[001] gracious, gallant, and chivalrous. He again began to _____ the violin, and tucking the instrument beneath his c
[002] g to some of his associates, and he also worked on a _____ that he first called Niggertown, the material for wh
[003] had collected during the summer at home. Later this _____ would be called Welcome to Our City. In the spring,
[004] e spring, it must have been, he began working on the _____ that he called The House, which later would be Manne
[005] ater point out, in the length of his novels. In this _____ there were so many characters and so much detail. To
[006] spised parsimony, and particularly of words. In this _____ there were some thirty or more named characters and
[007] e "I didn't know how to save paint", but because the _____ required them. And he threatened someday to write a
[008] required them. And he threatened someday to write a _____ "with fifty, eighty, a hundred people- a whole town,
[009] the university. Well, the Theatre Guild kept that _____ , and kept it, and finally in December they turned it
[010] e the Theatre Guild man. This man, Tom said, had the _____ shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat dow
[011] , Tom said the man told him, wanted realism, and his _____ wasn't that. It was fantastic writing, beautiful wri
[012] wanted realism. Tom was not willing to revise the _____ according to the plan the man suggested. Such a revi
[013] ld ruin it, would change his whole conception of the _____ as well as the treatment. He thought about it and he
[014] life. I wanted to help so that we could find time to _____ . And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have
[015] e guitar and he would take it along on our walks and _____ for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream
[016] of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality _____ set in motion by the gods for our instruction. Th
[017] the performance turned into a revel of wit and word _____ , indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and
[018] for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word _____ that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmista
[019] ir values?- since, as Courtenay says, "Nobody should _____ with lives the way we do unless he's motivated by th
[020] cian is the underdog par excellence. He is forced to _____ for little money, and must often take another job to
[021] Around that statue in the green park where children _____ and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view
[022] help available to him and draws these resources into _____ , taking care to examine at least some of the raw mat
[023] f promoting physical efficiency, sportsmanship, and " _____ for
[024] for _____ 's sake". The Association is governed by a board made
[025] in the winter sports carnival and sponsors several _____ Days with St. Olaf and other near-by colleges. With
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[001] mbassador to Poland. Repnin, who had a rather narrow _____ , longish nose, high forehead, and arching brows, loo
[002] d penetrating blue eyes. His gray hair was thin, his _____ beginning to attract a swarm of wrinkles. He was ugl
[003] ract a swarm of wrinkles. He was ugly. But Suvorov's _____ was also a theater of vivacity, and his tough, stoop
[004] oicest possession, while the tears streamed down his _____ . The Australian aborigine is the conventional exempl
[005] to wonder". This was a profound statement. In the _____ of the unfolding universe, our ultimate attitude is
[006] ent in goals and aspirations. For there is also the " _____ of reality" in the form of the individual's percepti
[007] yielding to social demands, or compromising in the _____ of their own limitations of opportunity, or of abili
[008] he existing institutions of the society, and, in the _____ of the realities of complex and large-scale economic
[009] ing no shoes. Although the fort was evacuated in the _____ of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did h
[010] wn, and her mark of friendship was to look into your _____ . I accepted her crossed eyes as she accepted my chil
[011] the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point. In the _____ of a clear judgment from archaeology, therefore, it
[012] ers, the poets, or Orpheus performing his art in the _____ of hell. They are Descartes, Newton, and Voltaire. A
[013] of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome _____ . Graceful as his fencing and dancing lessons had tau
[014] as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to _____ up to the awful truth as more than enough to compens
[015] d these last ten years, if not by mankind? Here I am _____ to
[016] to _____ with the primeval stuff". The intuition about m
[017] me faith perhaps as the cave-men used to have in the _____ of famine". This new vision of man that the narra
[018] ulptor looked at him, let the color drain out of his _____ , grinned, and looked down into his drink, a bad Mart
[019] His bust shows an intense, mustached, fine-featured _____ . He flew over Rome one day during the early days of
[020] lent, poise, intelligence, personality and beauty of _____ and figure- is chosen each year to represent Rhode I
[021] lic at large. Then, abandoning the studies in the _____ of their promising outlook for all concerned, B. + O
[022] age-old questions of science and philosophy, in the _____ of possible wars of extinction. Forsan et haec ol
[023] llegiate athletics at Carleton College and will also _____ permanent suspension from the institution. The schoo
[024] curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the _____ of growing evidence that some of the early productio
[025] ionally removed from the pulley during the runs. The _____ of one block contained a hole 1/16'' in diameter whi
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[001] in English historical literature. Once the scene is _____ , Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until
[002] only comb, his fingers). An entire theater had been _____ up for his diversion, with a 200-man Italian orchest
[003] te of affairs to exist. To document his charge, Pike _____ up two parallel columns in the Advocate showing the
[004] try into any social gathering. He composed songs and _____ them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voi
[005] a turmoil. He held that no group of colonists could _____ up or maintain a government without royal sanction.
[006] nfined in irons for as long as it pleased the court, _____ to work and, if they broke jail or proclaimed heresy
[007] d. Criticism is as old as literary art and we can _____ the stage for our study of three moderns if we see
[008] imistic about their prospects in these regards; they _____ limits to their aspirations- few aspire to millions
[009] ll and closely spun that the lightest movement could _____ it trembling from one end to the other. Even so, Edw
[010] garetville and the one in Fleischmanns that had been _____ up as a partnership, were dissolved, separated fro
[011] before the century was out the tide of reaction had _____ in. Charles Plummer in the introduction and notes to
[012] s than he is to Pope and Voltaire. To say this is to _____ aside the realness of time. But it is true, neverthe
[013] stice and chastisement as if it were a morality play _____ in motion by the gods for our instruction. These
[014] thees trobles" (the Essex rising on February 8). He _____ down that "I gave **f Greene a pynte of muskadell an
[015] ks. He could produce carefully constructed orations, _____ and formal speeches, artfully and prayerfully made b
[016] of his surviving pieces in any calendar that may be _____ up for his undergraduate activities testifies. Hi
[017] been some others, such as the first prolusion, that _____ off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing ver
[018] ells's histories of the future, especially The World _____ Free (1914) and The Shape of Things to Come (1933)-
[019] undance which, in order to remain prosperous, must _____ its robots to consuming surplus production; Clifford
[020] but it is something. Even to be "from hope and fear _____ free" is at least better than to have lost the first
[021] tral episode consists of a series of staccato scenes _____ in the period from the beginning of the present cent
[022] ading a book about sailors. When Partisan and Kenyon _____ up shop, Mencken was still accepted as an arbiter of
[023] rm business services, and must meet the requirements _____ forth in the Farm Credit Act of 1933, as amended.
[024] within very broad limits recipients must be free to _____ their own goals and to devise their own institutions
[025] eloped countries to appraise their own resources, to _____ targets toward which they should be working, to esta
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[001] ook form afterward as a History of England. In short _____ , the general history became his most popular work an
[002] t Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the _____ of Merit. His academic duties had little evident eff
[003] ould be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in _____ to cross the Rhine into Germany. "May we come wit
[004] copes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended _____ , trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks
[005] al, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in _____ to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who cre
[006] in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in _____ to appear a Hercules in destroying them". To he
[007] es as a literary form. The orator of this period, in _____ to earn a reputation, had to pay close attention to
[008] swer the sachems' claim. The purchasers rejected the _____ in two letters written in vigorous terms. Then Massa
[009] n whole nations of people. If obeyed, the law brings _____ and satisfaction. If disobeyed, the result is turmoi
[010] subsistence; another by giving away his property in _____ to help his fellow man. Each will decide on his own
[011] . These lives are in themselves outside of the moral _____ and are unburdened with moral responsibility. Ther
[012] all, and they are arranged in roughly chronological _____ . Such a list must naturally be selective, and the tr
[013] of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey. In _____ to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch sev
[014] to obtain necessary supplies extremely hazardous. In _____ to see that this hindering situation remained effect
[015] igence of their movements. Interestingly enough, the _____ transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton als
[016] t he wouldn't. Alfred began to put his affairs in _____ , and he went about it like a man putting his things
[017] re than just quote the Commentaries of the Talmud in _____ to live. So Meltzer learned a new trade from Banks,
[018] the royal or aristocratic centre. From it, spokes of _____ and degree led to the outward rim of the common man.
[019] nity are such architectures of the imagination. They _____ the manifold levels of reality and moral value along
[020] to Shakespeare the day before. Baker wrote: "I tooke _____ with **f E. Grevile for the payment of Ceartaine mon
[021] to have paide. + **f more **f peeter Rowswell tooke _____ with his master to paie for mee". He asked Quiney to
[022] the Baileefe being late abroade to see the towne in _____ + comminge by in **f hurley Burley. came into the ho
[023] ry, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was _____ and that the
[024] and that the _____ so discovered was as much subject to historical laws
[025] is bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous _____ , and almost at once "the familiar procession of peop
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[001] Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to _____ my own copy of the first edition of my first book, w
[002] nsuccessful search for "Vale", asking his friends to _____ their ears open. Finally he learned through the grap
[003] pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to _____ them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify
[004] ntercept all supplies found going to the city and to _____ a close eye on the movements of the enemy. The hea
[005] ers to "send out patrols under vigilant officers" to _____ near the enemy. "The reason for this", the orders sa
[006] nferno will prove. A northern ambassador, willing to _____ his mouth shut and his ears open, could learn a lot
[007] ics were more earthy- from "Johnny Get Your Gun" to " _____ the Home Fires Burning" to "Mademoiselle from Arme
[008] ney, who had Whitney bound to "the good abaringe" to _____ the peace. A report of **f Edw: Grevyles minaces to
[009] ety was to mollify and appease the angry deities. To _____ themselves entrenched in power, the priests were for
[010] an about Lewis's drinking and urged him to "try to _____ him sober". After a dinner party for which she had c
[011] ermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to _____ him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in
[012] English friends, it said, had gone into training to _____ up with him vocally and with his "allegro movements
[013] and those they love; they instinctively struggle to _____ open a road to the future in their hearts. And by a
[014] iness and there are few, if any, wreaths for them. I _____ thinking of a young woman I knew during the Occupati
[015] people. So, I say, Mr. Speaker, God bless you and _____ you for many years not only for this body but for th
[016] t necessitated the institution of major economies to _____ within the total of allocated funds. The use of 100
[017] PTION is cut down by the shielding necessary to _____ out radiation. As soon as the shelter is completed a
[018] notony it may be necessary to invent tasks that will _____ the family busy. Records such as diaries can be kept
[019] can, with a tightly fitting cover, could be used to _____ the wastes until it is safe to leave the shelter.
[020] mfortable. Body heat in the close quarters will help _____ up the temperature. Warm clothing and bedding, of co
[021] ion of policies. Means must be found to enable us to _____ in touch as regularly and as efficiently as possible
[022] cer cannot help but be a planning officer. Unless we _____ our eyes on the horizon ahead, we shall fail to brin
[023] the expert his place, but he knows that he must also _____ him in it. He is already beginning to box the c
[024] many other avenues of investigation. Our plan is to _____ abreast of these advances, and select for developmen
[025] e true in general, I believe it is also important to _____ in mind that some recent developments suggest that o
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[001] his front would have developed the fact that he had _____ into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi
[002] own anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and _____ through anyone who might step out of line. When t
[003] arranging his private affairs which were, of course, _____ down. His neighbors celebrated his return, even if i
[004] ht. He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had _____ a free employment bureau for several months during t
[005] ally we got them out of the house, after the boy had _____ away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening
[006] a where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who _____ advertising agencies and big corporations, control t
[007] f the national economy and current analysis of short- _____ changes in the economic situation and business outlo
[008] as that a plan calls for factories without power to _____ them, or for institutions without trained personnel
[009] waste and diversion of aid resources and in the long _____ generates anti-American sentiment of a kind peculiar
[010] ration may be politically uncomfortable in the short _____ , but it is politically essential in the long
[011] , but it is politically essential in the long _____ . _3. U.S. POSITION ON SELF-HELP_ The United Sta
[012] of the less developed countries. This is not a short- _____ goal. To have any success in this effort, we must ou
[013] ion and the Security and Exchange Commission. But to _____ the gauntlet of the programs SAM RAYBURN brought int
[014] ities, and location advantages. We also continued to _____ a series of ads featuring endorsement of Rhode Islan
[015] ddition to the regular schedule, advertisements were _____ for maximum impact in special editions of the New Yo
[016] of international law are met, countries that try to _____ to blockade do so at their own risk. Blockade runner
[017] hes apart. The space between them is filled with pit- _____ gravel or earth. The walls are held together with me
[018] ced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit- _____ gravel. An alternate roof, perhaps more within do-it
[019] ld have to be covered with at least 28 inches of pit- _____ gravel. The materials for a double-wall shelter w
[020] RISKS?# No matter how well conceived and efficiently _____ , there probably will be failures. These could be cos
[021] ility. That is, to put it realistically, they had to _____ their businesses at a profit, or they had to get the
[022] are of their fellow men did not let their concern to _____ their businesses at a profit restrict the developmen
[023] nity. Some would say that they were not permitted to _____ their businesses only for profit; and even putting i
[024] high positive normal pressure. Although the tape was _____ for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and
[025] tion concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were _____ /chamber under the conditions described above. At the
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[001] an elegant banquet or reception. Lewis could let his _____ caress The Prince's divan, covered with a rose-pink
[002] eckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his _____ . Usually Lewis would find at headquarters one or mor
[003] or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, _____ downcast, in a Scheherazade trance. When this happen
[004] nd a little newt and that he was transplanting a big _____ of the big newt onto the little newt and a little
[005] of the big newt onto the little newt and a little _____ of the little newt onto the big newt. He was then no
[006] t onto the big newt. He was then noting that the big _____ on the little newt hung back until the little
[007] on the little newt hung back until the little _____ had grown up to it, while the little
[008] had grown up to it, while the little _____ on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as
[009] supplies found going to the city and to keep a close _____ on the movements of the enemy. The headquarters of
[010] ective stories as a myth reference, and the "private _____ " as a myth hero. Speaking in terms of sociological s
[011] ng in terms of sociological stereotype, the "private _____ " might appeal to the poet in search of a myth for ma
[012] side of the ruling classes. Obviously, the "private _____ " can have no more appeal for Patchen. To fill the jo
[013] by **f. The size of this hot region was estimated by _____ . The rest of the surface had a temperature which dec
[014] practically the same conditions, may hit the bull's- _____ from 0 to 5 times. In repeated sets of five shots hi
[015] l. In the examples above, the occurrence of a bull's- _____ , a straight-haired mouse, or an ace could be called
[016] round shot at a target" with outcome either one bull's- _____ (success) or none (failure). Further, an experiment
[017] tural from the marksman's viewpoint to call a bull's- _____ a success, but in the mice example it is arbitrary w
[018] some probability p, perhaps 0.1, of making a bull's- _____ . Note that we need not know the value of p, for the
[019] azzles the marksman, lowering his chance of a bull's- _____ . _4. THE TRIALS ARE INDEPENDENT._ Strictly spea
[020] re to be the number of shots before his first bull's- _____ , that is, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 (or 5, if he gets no bull's-
[021] , that is, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 (or 5, if he gets no bull's- _____ ). Thus we do not score the number of bull's-eyes, an
[022] bvious, common-sense, indubitable IDENTITY, as do an _____ or tooth or nail. They isolate out easily, naturally
[023] avoided completely. Rather than being deceived, the _____ is puzzled; instead of seeing objects in space, it s
[024] ing the surface at arm's length fell all the more to _____ -undeceiving contrivances. To reinforce, and sometime
[025] k, and almost always in conjunction with every other _____ -deceiving and
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[001] ed or directed the whole complicated process". The _____ is admirably fulfilled for the period up to 1832. Mo
[002] was not willing to revise the play according to the _____ the man suggested. Such a revision, he said, would r
[003] motives of revenge and retaliation". Baker took the _____ to Wilson who said: "Baker, this is plainly right on
[004] al sources. If he found data that fitted his general _____ , he used it and counted his sources trustworthy. Con
[005] ^rdinate the uses of American aid under the Marshall _____ . The United States might well have exploited the opp
[006] although the margin, as in the case of the Marshall _____ , can be decisive. External aid can be effective only
[007] o point out defects where they exist, such as that a _____ calls for factories without power to run them, or fo
[008] ue of country development programs. _(B) THE NEED TO _____ INVESTMENT PROGRAMS._ More importantly, several o
[009] untries have found through experience that they must _____ their own complex investment programs for at least 5
[010] strial Building Authority's 100% guaranteed mortgage _____ : Collyer Wire, Leesona Corporation, and American T
[011] t terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to _____ for the future of the State of Rhode Island. The act
[012] given to the preparation of a meaningful state guide _____ to serve as a background for all other planning acti
[013] ns, or should mean, state planning", the state guide _____ will take into account the metropolitan nature of ma
[014] itical boundaries, within the framework of the state _____ . _(6)_ The state development budget will reflec
[015] he projects in the budget will be based on the state _____ . _(7)_ In preparing the state guide
[016] . _(7)_ In preparing the state guide _____ , particular attention will be given means of strengt
[017] tinct phases: basic mapping, inventory, analysis and _____ and policy formation. The work program, as it was or
[018] planning division to implement the long range state _____ has been to prepare two series of base maps- one at
[019] ith these maps completed, the inventory phase of the _____ has been started. _INVENTORY_ With the aid of m
[020] local finances: adoption of the budget, or financial _____ , in advance of spending. _2._ The uniform fisca
[021] ith which a town or city can convert to the proposed _____ is directly dependent upon the financial condition o
[022] 15, February 17, and May 15, (Cranston). Under this _____ both Cranston and Providence would be on the uniform
[023] la is feasible; each situation must be studied and a _____ developed that takes into consideration such factors
[024] approach outlined here. Detailed studies of the _____ were well underway. Though far from completion, thes
[025] oblem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to _____ the use of existing space. Such planning will requir
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[001] ork was accompanied by the publication of a selected _____ of documents, in this case illustrative of the histo
[002] roadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled _____ of infantrymen. His hat was gone, the tears were str
[003] oems" mentioned in the letter to Meynell comprised a _____ of five sonnets, which were published in the 1913 ed
[004] er Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the _____ available in print so that a general picture of what
[005] technical advance over those of the "Narrow Vessel" _____ and are, if anything, somewhat more labored. Their i
[006] ctricity, and telephones. At Sounion there is a _____ of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Posei
[007] e Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this _____ that he made his debut as an orator, being invited t
[008] and soon put the town in a turmoil. He held that no _____ of colonists could set up or maintain a government w
[009] al Christianity. I came under the spell of a younger _____ in the church led by the pastor's older son. The spi
[010] ch led by the pastor's older son. The spirit of this _____ was that we were- and are- living in a world doomed
[011] lies as a weight on their souls night and day. This _____ in Park Place Church was made up of the earnest few.
[012] miserable soul. I found myself becoming one of that _____ of people who, in Carlyle's words, "are forever gazi
[013] ary to inflict or permit injury to one individual or _____ for the sake of a larger good. For this decision a m
[014] hievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of _____ harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aw
[015] ances for promotion when that matter came before the _____ later on. In late December, the American army mov
[016] as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that "brilliant _____ of mediocre men", as Powicke calls them, who provide
[017] h us. In the main stream of historical thinking is a _____ of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank
[018] th these schools of nineteenth century thought. As a _____ they should be favorable to a concept of gradual Ger
[019] in the Senate Office Building before a distinguished _____ of congressmen and high Army officers. Secretary of
[020] ought news from Kansas City. Before his departure, a _____ of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had
[021] il is available as an executive agency, the Standing _____ as a high military authority. The unofficial Confere
[022] revious evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical _____ that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is ofte
[023] imself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry _____ , maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though h
[024] ne manner of experience will be typical of any given _____ while another will not. But I've got news for Krim:
[025] ") was "a must". He moved in a "highly intellectual" _____ in Greenwich Village in the late forties, becoming "