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Scholars & Gentlemen. Whatever the answer, English educators expect that more & more boys from the state schools are going to crash the hallowed gates of the public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part...
Addition. Tracerlab was soon marketing an array of 100 items. Samples: lead bricks (at $9.60 each) for protection from radioactivity; long-handled tongs ($25); "safety buttons," which warn laboratory workers when they have been exposed to dangerous radiation.
The Communists replied the following day with one of the biggest, noisiest picket lines of the trial, chanting insults at Medina and Janney. Samples:
A month after setting out, Heysen and the remnants of his band reached Angayza, the first white men ever known to have been there. If any of them had expected the mountain to be solid gold, they were disappointed, though ore samples did contain gold. Last week a government communique...
Nightmarish Question. From the north came word of new difficulties. In Tientsin, the Communists cooked up a retroactive "income tax" for the last half of 1948. The tax bore little relation to income, was based instead on a firm's "past reputation and business attitude." There was also the...