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...They had walked all the way from Dover after spending their last penny in France, but they had enough strength left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said to have shuddered like a giant oak on finding that one of the bums was an official of the Foreign Office, the other, Chesterton's bosom friend and distinguished literary colleague, Mr. Hilaire Belloc...
This week's issue of the Oak Leaf, the Adams House paper, contained a scathing editorial criticizing the reservation of the best seats at the Christmas play for staff members...
George R. Agassiz Station will be the new official title of the University's astronomy observatory located on Oak Ridge in Harvard, Massachusetts...
North American was asked by the Atomic Energy Commission to design the pile. Isotope users now have to rely on Oak Ridge for 90% of their isotopes. Since many isotopes lose much of their radioactivity within a few hours, users would find a nearby pile of their own much more efficient...
...this day, the King is not allowed to set foot in the House of Commons, though the place officially belongs to him. Whenever the King's Messenger arrives at the House, frockcoated and gaitered, to deliver some official piece of news, the oak door is slammed in his face, and the cry "Black Rod! Black Rod!" goes bawling down the lobbies. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod thereupon knocks thrice upon the door with his wand of office, and is then admitted, bowing to the Speaker and members on both sides as he approaches the Bar. M.P.s dearly...