Word: workaday
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...with his babes in the woods, and goes to bed with a bottle of whisky. "Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care." But one session with Bartlett does not make an egghead, and next day Jeff is right back in the workaday world, braving the poison darts that come whistling through the Temple of the Rain Gods. All in all, the picture goes a long way toward explaining the nervous market...
...Brush. The 111 riders thus risking their necks were the cream of the American Motorcycle Association's 2,000 clubs and 100,000 members. From all over the U.S. they came-lean, leather-skinned young men, none of them professional riders, most of them temporary escapees from workaday jobs as mechanics, farmers or motorcycle dealers...
...Magritte is likely to agree, at least in part. He lives a simple workaday life in a three-room apartment, puts in four mornings a week transferring what he calls his "dreams" on to canvas, and spends the rest of his time listening to the radio or walking solemnly around Brussels. In five years he has taken only one trip: a short jaunt to Southern France. "There's nothing I want," he says. "If someone offered me $10 million, I'd take it, I suppose. But I don't want the money. I desire nothing known. Most...
Cinderella sister of Oxford and Cambridge, London U. still holds its classes in workaday clothes. Its students are too busy with their books to be bothered about being gentlemen scholars. As they "came down" from the autumn term last week, they had few opportunities to wear dinner jackets, even if they owned any. Vacation meant little more than time for a trip on the underground to a Leicester Square movie rather than a Russell Square lecture...
...truly blind have to be treated as if they were, because they have so little useful vision that ordinary spectacles yield them only a faint, blurred image. This week, Columbia University's inventive optometrist, Dr. William Feinbloom, announced that he had found a way to restore workaday vision to about half these patients so that they can read newspapers, watch TV or even do precision work in factories...