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...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one as a medic. The ...

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...rnight at Bourne’s house 21. Brandt moves in with Fletcher and his son Bumper 22. Steward starts feeling out of place in the Air Force 23. Steward races Jim Morris in an inter-base track meet 24. Steward quits the Air Force program, gets accepted to VISTA 25. Morris, with Ellen, visits Scotts Bluff, site on Oregon trail 26. Morris and Ellen share a romantic dinner in...

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...illiams should get several second and third places in them. The two hurdle races and the discus are other weak events for the Purple, while the high j... ...raphs containing scenes of local interest. A highly interesting review of "Rowing at Williams" with an accompanying photograph of the '74 crew is pres... ...Brown should be the man push- ing Hubbard at the finish. In the two sprint races. Read of Amherst, consistently good for 10 1-5 seconds, and with a re... ... December issue of the Pur- ple Cow will be published before th* Christmas racess. Daily practice for the relay team has been held, and will continue ... ... race, M. Luguet went on to say that in the ninth century there were three races on the soil of France. The occupation of Gaul by the Romans, and the ... ...' Hall, on Saturday, February 1. The entries are unusually large, and team races will again be a fpature. Thirteen of the latter have already been arr... ...applies equally well to all branches of sport, such as track athletics and rowing. Are we willing to say that in college athletics we will make no dis... ...ning, of the 1908 swimming season, and is the first time since the days of rowing at Willinnis that the college has en- tered the field of aquatic spo...

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...ser- vations of the many cancer patients waiting for chemo – all ages; all races; rich and poor; both genders; some serene and relaxed, others uptight... ...allow her to go.” “Scott?” Jana admonished, her eyes wide and a frown fur- rowing her brow. “I’m sorry,” said Scott, getting to his feet and pacing th...

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...ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION ... ... in its construction was of the choicest, and it was provided with thirty-four rowing benches, while the stem and stern were covered with gold. While ... ...st across the peninsula which separates one bank from the other, a whole day's rowing is barely sufficient to bring the traveller to a point where he ... ...e canoes they went and resumed their tedious journey up the river. THE FAMINE. Rowing for a time, then disembarking and dragging their boats over long... ...s than 150 of the natives, all armed with shields, lances, and bows, and after rowing hastily towards the departing French ships, they began hideous o...

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...d girl kiss and squirm. 375 Henley Street May 4, 1615 rowing up, our greatest fun was swimming, our greatest anguish church. Fro... ...good natured Billy. Here we talked business, cockfights, women, and horse races. For sixteen years we kept at it, learning, unlearning. For every st... ...2 very back of the tent someone is playing a harmonica, the “Camp Town Races”...or so it was yesterday. The White House Summer Today I have b...

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...raise the horse, that beares most bells with flying, And triumphs most in races hoarse with crying, and not for his furniture: a greyhound for his sw... ...and trickes of the pen, common unto a thousand men. many are there in all races or families both of one name and surname! And how many in divers fam... ...r families both of one name and surname! And how many in divers families, races, ages, and countries? Historie hath knowne three Socrates, five Plat... ... who did nothing but trifle, toy, and dally with himself, in rumbling and rowing of his tub, and flurting at Alexander, accompting us but flies and b... ...s cut off, thinking thereby to deprive them of all meanes of fighting, or rowing, or handling their oares. The Athenians likewise caused them to be c... ...eth not Hector? Who hath not heard of Achilles? Not onely some particular races, but most nations, seeke to derive themselves from his inventions. M... ...honest, excluding from it the most reverend vocation of men; as wee to our races assigne such beasts as are of least esteeme. Table of Contents. ...

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...r had, but one; And that defies me,—as a hand Did try to chalk the sun T o races nurtured in the dark;— How would your own begin? Can blaze be done in... ...uished, now, for you! It might have been the lighthouse spark Some sailor, rowing in the dark, Had importuned to see! It might have been the waning la... ...rn winds Is sweetest nutriment to him, His best Norwegian wines. T o satin races he is nought; But children on the Don Beneath his tabernacles play, A... ...he winds T o a heart in port,— Done with the compass, Done with the chart. Rowing in Eden! Ah! the sea! Might I but moor T o-night in thee! ...

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...round. There was a boat with a gaudy Japanese parasol, and a man in white, rowing. The woman was Hermione, and the man was Gerald. She knew it instant... ... not that—it was the whiteness he seemed to en- close as he bent forwards, rowing. He seemed to stoop to something. His glistening, whitish hair seeme... ...n the lake. There was a little pleasure-launch on Willey Water and several rowing boats, and guests could take tea either in the marquee that was set ... ...ls were simpering with parasols, some young men, who had just come in from rowing, were sitting cross-legged on the grass, coatless, their shirt-sleev... ...o the house, where there’s a tent on the lawn?’ he asked. ‘Can’t we have a rowing boat, and get out?’ asked Ursula, who was always rushing in too fast... ...frican process, to be fulfilled. It would be done differently by the white races. The white races, having the arctic north behind them, the vast abstr... ...he mystery of creation was fathomless, infallible, inexhaustible, forever. Races came and went, species passed away, but ever new spe- cies arose, mor... ...rchable. It had no limits. It could bring forth miracles, create utter new races and new species, in its own hour, new forms of consciousness, new for...

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... to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off after I ca... ... the sea being full in my view, I saw our men already got into the boat, and rowing for life to the ship. I was going to halloo after them, al though... ... understood how to handle a sail or an oar, and whether a little exercise of rowing might not be convenient for my health? I an swered, that I unders... ...their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they... ...ns of friendship and benevolence or the praises of those who were victors in races and other bodily exercises. Their buildings, although very rude and...

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...sons of Alcinous, Laodamas, Halios, and Clytoneus, com peted also. The foot races came first. The course was set out for them from the starting post,... ...Thence we sailed sadly on till the men were worn out with long and fruitless rowing, for there was no longer any wind to help them. Six days, night an... ...en taking to their oars they whitened the water with the foam they raised in rowing. Meanwhile I look a large wheel of wax and cut it up small with my... ...nd feet to the mast as I stood upright on the cross piece; but they went on rowing themselves. When we had got within earshot of the land, and the sh... ... of the wa ters, but the ship stayed where it was, for the men had left off rowing. I went round, therefore, and exhorted them man by man not to lose... ...said nothing about the awful monster Scylla, for I knew the men would not on rowing if I did, but would huddle together in the hold. In one thing only...

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...ugh hidden, idea at the back of Slav thought—the unifi- cation of the Slav races. How doubly welcome that art should be which can lead us, the foreign... ...Slavonian rivulets into the Russian sea, a powerful attraction of the Slav races towards a common centre to create an era of peace and development wit... ...th some unknown people. They did not speak, but sat motionless, no one was rowing; the 154 On the Eve boat was moving by itself. Elena was not afraid...

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...a man of violent passions. 79 Yo n g e The fourth century was a time when races and all sorts of shows were the fashion, nay, literally the rage; for... ... Blues or the Greens. A favorite chariot driver, who had excelled in these races at Thessalonica, was thrown into prison for some misdemeanor by Bothe... ...evailed even against the Emperor. Mere tricks of beasts, horse and chariot races, or bloodless contests, were tame and dull, according to the dis- eas... ... been completed, the Coliseum shows com- menced, innocently at first, with races on foot, on horse- back, and in chariots; then followed a grand hunti... ... generous enemy. The Spanish Arabs were indeed the flower of the Mahometan races, endowed with the vigor and honor of the desert tribes, yet capable o... ...ive was released from toiling in Algiers or T ripoli, or still worse, from rowing the pirate vessels, chained to the oar, between the decks, and was r...

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... never thought at all except how to get the most rollicking and the finest rowing out of life. It seems to me that I had about as much sense as a gree... ...m that Wilfred knew a good deal too much about this more dangerous side of races and athletics. He said so to Angela, and she answered, “Oh, nonsense!... ...ent state of things! I meant to give the young chap a desperate fright and rowing, but that will have to be deferred.” “You must let me take it!” “No,...

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...ese latter words the girl shivered again, and for a mo- ment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint. It escaped his attention, for he was ... ...eld it out lovingly to- wards him: then, without speaking, she resumed her rowing, 6 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 1 as another boat of similar appearanc... ...at was tokenz?’ ‘Marks,’ said Mr Podsnap; ‘Signs, you know, Appearances— T races.’ 133 Charles Dickens ‘ Ah! Of a Orse?’ inquired the foreign gentlem... ...affairs and been marched out to be shot, before the door banged. Hard work rowing the cab through the City to the T emple, for a cup of from five to t...

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...ndward side, pulled round un- der the stern, and showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stub... ... talking to them in general, and especially in inculcating the religion of rowing. But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings tha... ...h many of the ocean’s noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and of climes. They contain round archipela- goes of romantic isles, ... ...he loom or handle of every man’s oar, so that it jogs against his wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately sit at the op... ...et an example of super- human activity to the rest, not only by incredible rowing, but by repeated loud and intrepid exclamations; and what it is to k... ... from first to last; he should both dart the harpoon and the lance, and no rowing whatever should be expected of him, except under circumstances obvio...

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... windward side, pulled round under the stern, and showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stub... ...alking to them in general, and especially in inculcating the reli gion of rowing. But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings tha... ...h many of the ocean’s noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and of climes. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, ev... ...he loom or handle of every man’s oar, so that it jogs against his wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately sit at the op... ... set an example of superhuman activity to the rest, not only by incredible rowing, but by repeated loud and intrepid exclamations; and what it is to k... ...s from first to last; he should both dart the harpoon and the lance, and no rowing whatever should be expected of him, except under circumstances obvio...

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...et him go to town, and he—poor, good soul—is afraid to be let go. —Lafaele (Raphael), a strong, dull, deprecatory man; splendid with an axe, if watche... ...e; and Belle, prompt as an echo, ‘Then there are no more of the family? how delightful!’Sale was sufficiently surprised to change the subject; he bega... ...ve all this is true of the last, where my weak point was attempted. On every other, I am strong. Only force can dislodge me, for public opinion is who... ...t makes a man small, and yet the ex- tent to which he approved what I had done—or rather have tried to do—encouraged me. Sir George is an expert at le...

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...re; Lespel wrote for my team; I suspect he’s for starting some new October races. He talks of half-a-dozen drags. He must have lots of women there. I ... ... and greediness in regard to women, as well as a dispo- sition to run hard races for them out of a spirit of pure rivalry. ‘It’s no use contradicting,... ...humble admirers of the brilliant chatelaine. Beauchamp had the pleasure of rowing Madame la Mar- quise to the short shaded walk separating the river f... ...ow of an English ear. A surprise was in reserve for her. Beauchamp gave up rowing. As he rested on the sculls, his head was bent and turned toward the... ... Narcissus enchained his attention. She tapped her foot. ‘Are you tired of rowing, monsieur?’ ‘It was exactly here,’ said he, ‘that you told me you ex... ...he Italian common people are not so subject to the charm of music as other races? They have more of the gift, and I think less of the feeling. You do ... ...her older than him fell over- board; and just then Commander Beauchamp was rowing by, and I saw him from off here, where I stood, jump up and dive, an... ... down a long time. Either he burst a vessel or he got cramp, for he’d been rowing himself from the schooner grounded down at the river-mouth, and must...

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...that anything was more curious than when a party of boys were seen running races on his forehead, to try which of them could get first round the circl... ...eyes, and such smooth horns of ivory, as this one. And the bull ran little races, and capered sportively around the child; so that she quite forgot ho... ...dicularly in the air, while Orpheus (who liked such a task far better than rowing) swept his fin gers across the harp. At the first ringing note of t...

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...e St. Gothard Tunnel was going on, and that magnificent enterprise of bur- rowing was directly responsible for the unexpected building, standing all a... ...rsonal experience. 91 Joseph Conrad For Englishmen especially, of all the races of the earth, a task, any task, undertaken in an adventur- ous spirit...