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Fairmount Park Commission Does each tentacle of the octopus of City Government reach out and lash at whatever it dislikes or considers an annoyance? | considers | {
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They are the most beautiful part of that little piece of Nature. | are | {
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The trees are their homes ; but the Commission does not share such sentiments. | are | {
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The trees are their homes ; but the Commission does not share such sentiments. | share | {
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The whole official City apparently has an intense hatred toward birds. | has | {
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Starlings and blackbirds are scared off by cannon, from City Hall. | scared off | {
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If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too. | are | {
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If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too. | expect | {
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If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too. | see | {
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If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too. | prohibiting | {
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The City Government is not united in an all-out, to-the-death drive to stamp out gangs, delinquents, thugs, murderers, rapists, subversives. | is | {
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The City Government is not united in an all-out, to-the-death drive to stamp out gangs, delinquents, thugs, murderers, rapists, subversives. | stamp out | {
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Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive. | keep | {
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Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive. | placed | {
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Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive. | survive | {
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Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we 're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say `` How come? | forcing | {
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Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we 're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say `` How come? | watch | {
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Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we 're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say `` How come? | die | {
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Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we 're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say `` How come? | 're | {
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Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we 're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say `` How come? | feed | {
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Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we 're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say `` How come? | protest | {
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Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we 're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say `` How come? | say | {
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Who wants this deed done ''? | wants | {
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Who wants this deed done ''? | done | {
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- in this small way do the leaders of a city, or of a nation, inure the masses to watching, or even inflicting, torture and death, upon even their fellow men. | inure | {
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- in this small way do the leaders of a city, or of a nation, inure the masses to watching, or even inflicting, torture and death, upon even their fellow men. | watching | {
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- in this small way do the leaders of a city, or of a nation, inure the masses to watching, or even inflicting, torture and death, upon even their fellow men. | inflicting | {
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One means to help the birds occurs to me : Let the chimes that ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music but one. | help | {
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One means to help the birds occurs to me : Let the chimes that ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music but one. | occurs | {
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One means to help the birds occurs to me : Let the chimes that ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music but one. | ring | {
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One means to help the birds occurs to me : Let the chimes that ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music but one. | discontinue | {
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Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn `` Abide With Me ''. | offer | {
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Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn `` Abide With Me ''. | been | {
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Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn `` Abide With Me ''. | began | {
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We will know, and He will know, to whom it is rendered, what the birds would ask. | know | {
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We will know, and He will know, to whom it is rendered, what the birds would ask. | know | {
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We will know, and He will know, to whom it is rendered, what the birds would ask. | rendered | {
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We will know, and He will know, to whom it is rendered, what the birds would ask. | ask | {
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There is a trend today to bemoan the fact that Americans are too `` soft ''. | is | {
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There is a trend today to bemoan the fact that Americans are too `` soft ''. | are | {
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Unfortunately, those who would remedy our `` softness '' seek to do so with calisthenics. | remedy | {
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Unfortunately, those who would remedy our `` softness '' seek to do so with calisthenics. | seek | {
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Unfortunately, those who would remedy our `` softness '' seek to do so with calisthenics. | do | {
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They are working on the wrong part of our anatomy. | working on | {
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It is not our bodies but our hearts and heads that have grown too soft. | is | {
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It is not our bodies but our hearts and heads that have grown too soft. | grown | {
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Ashamed of our wealth and power, afraid of so-called world opinion and addicted to peace, we have allowed our soft-heartedness to lead to soft-headed policies. | allowed | {
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Ashamed of our wealth and power, afraid of so-called world opinion and addicted to peace, we have allowed our soft-heartedness to lead to soft-headed policies. | lead | {
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When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, a... | become | {
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When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, a... | stand | {
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When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, a... | know | {
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When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, a... | be | {
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When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, a... | become | {
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When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, a... | be | {
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America does n't need to `` push-up '', she needs to stand up! | stand up | {
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The new column by Maurice Stans regarding business scandals, is fair and accurate in most respects and his solution to the problem has some merit. | is | {
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The new column by Maurice Stans regarding business scandals, is fair and accurate in most respects and his solution to the problem has some merit. | has | {
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However, he states unequivocally `` the scandals in business are far less significant than the scandals in labor ''. | states | {
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However, he states unequivocally `` the scandals in business are far less significant than the scandals in labor ''. | are | {
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I must, in fairness, take issue with his premise, primarily because the so-called scandals in labor unions were very much connected with business scandals. | take issue | {
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I must, in fairness, take issue with his premise, primarily because the so-called scandals in labor unions were very much connected with business scandals. | were | {
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The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''. | commented | {
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The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''. | had | {
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The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''. | do | {
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These arrangements would have been impossible if the business community was truly interested in the welfare of its employes. | been | {
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A sweetheart arrangement can come about as often by employers doing the corrupting as by unscrupulous labor leaders demanding tribute. | come about | {
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A sweetheart arrangement can come about as often by employers doing the corrupting as by unscrupulous labor leaders demanding tribute. | doing | {
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A sweetheart arrangement can come about as often by employers doing the corrupting as by unscrupulous labor leaders demanding tribute. | demanding | {
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Anyone familiar with the details of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders. | realize | {
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Anyone familiar with the details of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders. | augmented | {
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Anyone familiar with the details of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders. | augmented | {
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Further, it should be recalled that some very definite steps were taken by Congress to combat corruption in the labor movement by its passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act. | recalled | {
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Further, it should be recalled that some very definite steps were taken by Congress to combat corruption in the labor movement by its passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act. | taken | {
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Further, it should be recalled that some very definite steps were taken by Congress to combat corruption in the labor movement by its passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act. | combat | {
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If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it. | sensed | {
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If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it. | comment | {
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After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm - `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' - and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother. | finished | {
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After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm - `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' - and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother. | eating | {
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After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm - `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' - and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother. | took | {
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After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm - `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' - and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother. | teach | {
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After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm - `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' - and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother. | climbed | {
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She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''. | offered | {
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She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''. | walk | {
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She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''. | knew | {
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She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''. | feel | {
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She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''. | confided | {
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She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''. | chose | {
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When they reached their neighbor 's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought - of the type to which she was frequently subject these days - that they might never see one another again. | reached | {
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