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The tone was set early when Republican pollster Whit Ayers declared that “we are in an epic struggle against secular socialism.”

"This room looks every whit as grand as it used to look to me when I was a boy," he said.

The praise is not a whit too high; the truth could not have been better said.

Patricks clover works by opposite, I guess, but she drove along, her high spirits not a whit repressed by what had happened.

That the standard of measurement she applied was tremendously high made no difference to Clancy, abated no whit her judgment.

Now, suppose six-feet-two conqueror, and five-feet-eight beaten; would Sayers have been a whit the less gallant and meritorious?