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Last straw is SECommission. This backward moppet, 39, reads first SECcommission. goes back and reads SEEcommission or secOMission; by then, remembers-until next week's issue-that in last week's issue, he finally managed to slur it into SEHcommission; by then, also realizes that he doesn't really give two hoots in Hell what the SEC Commission does and skips the page...
...professors and tutors, who are allowed to take books out for as long as they desire, subject only to an annual spring check-up by the Library, are holding books longer than they have any right to them. Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their own private quarters, and that they frown on any attempt of undergraduates to wrest away these treasures...
...Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful day in 1796 when he was so poor he had neither paper nor ink with which to write his laundry list. Senefelder. whose plays no one would print, had been trying to make himself his own engraver by practicing writing backward on slabs of limestone which he picked up around Munich. In wax, backward, he wrote the laundry list on a piece of stone, reflected afterward that if the stone were bitten away with acid around the wax he could ink it and get an impression...
...only insider on all University affairs, self-styled Harvard's leading instructor of the backward, and a chimpanzee raiser of no mean ability...
...slipped into first place in the National League and the Reds had just slumped into last place. With both major leagues entering the home stretch of their pennant races and fans already looking forward to the World Series a fortnight off, owners, players, and above all, managers, were looking backward with mingled satisfaction and rue as their six-month season drew to a close...