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EXERCISE 66

_Combine each of the following groups of sentences into one well
constructed long sentence:_

1. In highly developed commercial communities banks cannot afford
space in their vaults for valuables. Especially, they cannot afford
it merely to accommodate their patrons. Hence, in such communities
the furnishing of places for safe deposit has become a separate
business.

2. History should be a part of the course in all schools. It develops
the memory. It furnishes the explanation of many social phenomena.
It broadens the intellectual view. It gives culture as no other
study can give it.

3. He never desired a higher education. This was possible because
of the money bequeathed to him by his father. It had left him no
need for a great earning capacity. More likely, it was because
of the inborn dulness and lethargy of his mind.

4. New York is the pivotal state in all national elections. Its
great number of electors makes it always possible for it to throw
the election either way. Therefore, until one knows to which party
New York will fall, he cannot tell how the election will result.

5. Our forefathers were devout. They were easily shocked in many
ways. However, they permitted many liberties in the application
of sermons to particular individuals. Such things would nowadays
be strongly disapproved or resented.

6. Man's life is divided into two parts by a constantly moving
point. This point is called the present. It divides the past from
the future.

7. The Spartans were tormented by ten thousand absurd restraints.
They were unable to please themselves in the choice of their wives.
They were unable to please themselves in their choice of food or
clothing. They were compelled to assume a peculiar manner, and
to talk in a peculiar style. Yet they gloried in their liberty.

8. The mere approach to the temperance question is through a forest
of statistics. This forest is formidable and complicated. It causes
one, in time, to doubt the truth of numbers.

9. They passed the old castle. It was almost unrecognizable. This
was by reason of the scaffolding which surrounded it. The castle
was now being transformed into a national museum.

10. He stood looking with curiosity at John Peters. Peters limped
slightly. Otherwise, he looked well and happy. He was moving about
shaking hands right and left.

11. They rushed at him with a yell. He had by this time reached
the base of