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Apropos and I
Apropos his Jewish identity, he states that he is of Jewish ethnicity but does not consider himself Jewish ; " I have the blood in me, but I'm not considered part of the tribe.

Apropos and which
Apropos of his axiom, " The medium is the message ," McLuhan argues that technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which people are re-invented.
Apropos of the solar eclipse of 829, Habash gives us the first instance of a determination of time by an altitude ( in this case, of the sun ); a method which was generally adopted by Muslim astronomers.

Apropos and .
Apropos of this was Robert F. Kennedy Jr .' s 11, 000-word Rolling Stone article apropos of the 2004 United States presidential election, published June 1, 2006.
Apropos diminished image quality, film reviewer Roger Ebert wrote about the film Counterpoint ( 1968 ): " The movie is shot in Techniscope, a process designed to give a wide-screen picture while saving film and avoiding payment of royalties to the patented processes like Panavision.

what and some
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.
I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.
The artistic interest, then, lies in what the encounter may be made to represent, in the power of some central significance to draw the details into relevance and meaningfulness.
But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.
Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.
`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.
Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.
Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.
In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.
The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life.
I know of no other solution than the one N.C. proposes -- to do what we can for each sufferer as he confronts us, hoping that this will spread beyond him to others at some time and some place.

what and would
He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
When suitably lighted, what would it look like??
She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??
Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
), what voices would be left??
The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.
When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.
Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
Still, it would be surprising if what one reads did not contribute to one's ideas of right and wrong ; ;
I would say, too, that the study of literature tends to give a person what I shall call depth.
The reporters were questioning the Interior man and the French officer, both of whom remained noncommittal as to what action, if any, would be taken in my regard.
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

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