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What and was
What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
What a spectacle he was, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a pig and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the sweetest, the bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this whole wonderful world.
What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
What they wished for most was security ; ;
What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
What was the list??
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
What was he doing??
What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.
What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.
What if it came when he was playing, or was asleep and dreaming??
What the hell was he up to now??

What and true
`` What is more true than anything else??
`` What Master Calvin says is true.
`` What this amounts to, if true, is that there will be a free-for-all fight in this case.
What she'd said was true -- in all these years, she'd never asked for anything from me.
What a true joy !...
However, the Vitagraph film-makers continued to be a little uneasy with the device, as a true POV shot is introduced by an explanatory intertitle, " What they saw in the house across the court " in Larry Trimble's Jean and the Waif, made at the end of 1910.
Humanae Vitae became " a sign of contradiction but also of continuity of the Church's doctrine and tradition ... What was true yesterday is true also today.
" Humanae Vitae became " a sign of contradiction but also of continuity of the Church's doctrine and tradition ... What was true yesterday is true also today.
What is called " true muonium ", a bound state of a muon and an antimuon, is a theoretical exotic atom which has never been observed.
What is more, the logically true N is not only not known to be true but also impossibly known to be true, for what is logically true is impossibly false.
" The windiest militant trash / Important Persons shout / Is not so crude as our wish :/ What mad Nijinsky wrote / About Diaghilev / Is true of the normal heart ;/ For the error bred in the bone /
This assertion can also be succinctly expressed by saying: What Michael says is true.
A variant of redundancy theory is the disquotational theory which uses a modified form of Tarski's schema: To say that '" P " is true ' is to say that P. A version of this theory was defended by C. J. F. Williams in his book What is Truth ?.
What holds true in one organization may not hold true in another, as is the case in many martial art systems.
What makes formal theorems useful and of interest is that they can be interpreted as true propositions and their derivations may be interpreted as a proof of the truth of the resulting expression.
What is true of Peter is true also of his successors.

What and for
`` What for ''??
`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??
`` What outfit does she drive for ''??
What did he do for relaxation??
She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!
What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).
What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.
What is interesting is that his positive qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to his candidacy.
What did he come for, hey??
`` What room is there going to be in an apartment for any child ''??
What is important here is that many of the cities and towns recognize the need for improved fiscal practices and are taking the initiative to obtain them.
What are the possibilities for operating your cafeteria for a single shift only and relying upon vending machines or prepackaged sandwiches for the second- and third-shift operations??
What can be done for the `` individual contributor '' who is extremely important -- and likely to be more so -- in the operation of the technically oriented company??
What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??
What accounts for the rapid growth of plastics in the sign and display field??
What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??
When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??
`` What are my chances for taking Joe's place ''??
What you were looking for ( unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis rackets and fly screens ) eludes me, but to judge from phonograph records scattered about a fumed-oak Victrola.

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