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...bananas, berries and pears with caramel sauce on it. That's about all, but don't hurry though. That's the dollar dinner I want served next week when I get off the train from Washington." Dr. Smith tries to identify speakers' places of origin by their pronunciation. and, what is more, does so about 70% of the time...
Although the origin of the light in the corona is unknown, Professor Menzel said that there is a direct relation between great upheavals in the sun's corona and the occurrence of magnetic storms on earth...
Washington, D. C., April 23--The common observation that the full moon seems about twice as large at the horizon as it does in the sky overhead has a physiological origin in the eye-movements of human beings, Harvard psychologists told the National Academy of Sciences today...
...prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard him as his best servant. Lucas told Smith some of his experiences among the baboons, explained the big scar on his head as the mark of a kick delivered by an ostrich whose nest he was raiding. His origin remained in doubt, but it was remembered that a native woman had lost a child years before while she was weeding a field...
TIME, like Reader Parker, could be wronger, but not much, about the origin of "stogies" (March 4, p. 2). They were invented in Washington, Pa., a town equidistant from Pittsburgh and Wheeling (about 30 miles). The following is from History of Washington County, Pennsylvania by Earle R. Forrest...