Word: decentered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campaigned with an effectiveness that surprised even his closest friends. Like many a candidate before him, he promised to clean up polluted streams and provide decent facilities for the state's mentally ill. But as soon as Big Jim took his oath, he began to do something about these promises. He asked the legislature for $140 million to spend on conservation and public health. To raise the money, he suggested increasing cigarette taxes, imposing a new tax on soft drinks and reinstating a tax on capital stocks...
...performance of their functions. . . ." This was magnificent bureaucratic jabberwocky, but everybody agreed that it was a compromise : the House of Lords was going to be reformed, and Labor would let the Tories have a say in it. Said,the Marquess of Salisbury: change would now come "in a decent, orderly British manner...
...Decent Burial (Cont...
Anent your story, Decent Burial [TIME, Jan. 12], those genuinely concerned over the rackets which flourish upon the dead will be interested in the following...
From Tea & Buns. The Lyons empire of edibles was starteD in 1886 by a tobacco salesman named Montague Gluckstein, who had noted the United Kingdom's lack of cheap but decent teashops. He sold his brother Isidore and brothers-in-law Alfred and Barnett Salmon on the idea of a moderate-priced catering service, brought in Joseph Lyons, who gave his name to the company, thus avoiding confusion with their tobacco company, Salmon & Gluckstein. In an era of mirrored gin palaces, those who could not afford the expensive West End restaurants readily took to the spick-&-span teashops. Lyons...