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Mary McCarthy’s memory may be apposite.

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In an age when education in Wales is deemed to be lagging behind that in other parts of the United Kingdom, it may be apposite to dust off the old correlation between team sport and individual achievement in the classroom.

I may adduce some circumstances from most ancient history and tradition which have not been applied to this question hitherto, but should have been, for they seem to be apposite and remarkable.

That book was The New Republic, with regard to which in this place a few words may be apposite.

The following preliminary sonnet to Sir Walter Raleigh seems to be apposite and new; it is needed to give atmosphere to the tales: Raleigh! the benefactor of thy kind, May azure undulations ever roll As incense to thee from the glowing bowl, Thy rapt disciples fume with placid mind In easy chair, by ingle-nook reclined!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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