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was and true
That was true, but only half the truth.
This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.
Helion did not realize it at the time, but it was true.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
What was true for archaeology was also true of place-name studies.
A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.
Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.
Something was happening all right, slowly it is true, but you could feel it.
It was true.
But if true, it was the case of which he had dreamed, the case which would throw him into headlines all over America as the hero of a great murder trial.
This was true mostly of those Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not perceive the ambiguous figure as people in action.
Particularly was this true when the norms previously applied were no longer satisfactory to many, when customs were rapidly changing as the forces of the new productivity were harnessed.
It is true that, initially, the task was to remove restrictions that, it was thought, inhibited the free flow of money, goods, and labor ; ;
Particularly was this true as laissez-faire capitalism became the dominant credo of Western society.
Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.
But it is also true that Braque was the consistent pioneer in the use of simulated textures as well as of typography ; ;

was and love
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.
When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.
And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
Of course his love was expressed in intelligent care.
It was during her `` writing '' period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.
It might be, indeed it had already proved to be a marriage without love, but it was marriage.
a woman who was willing to give him love, faith, and anything else a woman could give a husband.

was and Penny
`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.
It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.
That was where he met Penny.
Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.
And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.
Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.
The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.
The closed beta testing was released on November 30, 2011, only for those who received the keys in " Penny Arcade Expo " and Eurogamer.
A new musical score for the film was composed in 2010 by Michael Penny.
It was chosen as the top album by two of the voters, Bob Harris and Penny Valentine.
The Penny Red was used in the United Kingdom | UK for many years, and comes in hundreds of variations which are subject to detailed study by philatelists.
Nevertheless Penny Rimbaud of the English anarcho-punk band Crass said in interviews, and in an essay called The Last Of The Hippies, that Crass was formed in memory of his friend, Wally Hope.
Thomas Arnold, the Head Master of Rugby School, was an important influence on Coubertin's thoughts about education, but his meetings with Dr. William Penny Brookes also influenced his thinking about athletic competition to some extent.
The first adhesive postage stamp, commonly referred to as the Penny Black, was issued in the United Kingdom in 1840.
Though this ' stamp ' was applied to a letter instead of a separate piece of paper it is considered by many historians as the world's first postage stamp .< ref name =" William Dockwra and the Penny Post Service "></ span ></ font ></ ref >
The claim that the Scotsman James Chalmers was the inventor of the postage stamp first surfaced in 1881 when the book " The Penny Postage Scheme of 1837 ", written by his son, Patrick Chalmers, was published.
The first postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued by Britain in 1840 and pictured a young Queen Victoria.
Penny persuades Mary that her career is more important than whatever attraction she might have felt for Steve and Steve ’ s colleague persuades him that the connection he had with Mary was just the result of pre-wedding nerves.
One more important innovation in communications was the Penny Black, the first postage stamp, which standardised postage to a flat price regardless of distance sent.
The comedian " experienced vicariously " Reiner's ( his best friend at the time ) return to single life after divorcing comedienne / filmmaker Penny Marshall and in the process was unconsciously doing research for the role of Harry.
* Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the Penny Black and the modern postal system, was born in Blackwell Street on 3 December 1795.
The purity of 92. 5 % silver ( i. e., sterling silver ) was instituted by Henry II in 1158 with the " Tealby Penny "— a hammered coin.
When the first universal postal system was started in the United Kingdom with its Penny Black, the postmark used red ink for contrast.

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