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H.L. Mencken said that Baltimore was a lot quieter in his maturity than it had been in his childhood. For one thing, the earlier Baltimore had been supplied by carts with steel tires rolling over cobblestones. Have a look at Babbage's
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For a contrary view, Google for Edmund Wilson's essay, "Oh, Those Awful Orcs".
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The wrong things? A visit to the Museumplein, looking into the Beguinhof, shopping, dining at restaurants? Perhaps you can post a list of the right things.
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How many Americans, younger or not, would raise an eyebrow if invited to go camping around Hanford? The Russian soldiers might have heard about Chernobyl, but had no idea a) that they were there or b) how far the contaminated zones extended
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Arthur Koestler wrote a book about this notion, probably 50 years ago.
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In A Farewell to Arms , Hemingway writes of German scouts on bicycles at the head of the Caporetto breakthrough.
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Ten years ago, we bought a 2012 Acura station wagon, which came without a spare. It had a fixer-upper kit in place of spare and jack.
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Perhaps she lost badly in a tournament?
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The boomers should be dropping like flies, then. And of course we starting to hit the bathtub curve. I'm impressed that you could snack on plain wonder bread. I don't think that I could have. I got through a lot, but toasted and w
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Gaming rules is a fine tradition. But who is the Feynman of college administration? I can think of about five famous university presidents, and I'm not sure the innovations of any were that positive: Eliot and Conant at Harvard: Gilman
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A quick search for "prenuptial" on the USCCB website pulls up nothing in particular, not does one on the local archdiocesan site.
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I think it unfortunate that schools start before Labor Day and continue into June. As far as I can tell it is because of the number of added breaks, teacher in-service days, etc.
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Why not use a bus ride to obtain the extra discretionary time?
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One complaint: "chair a canon" is nothing in particular to the reader's eye, but "chair à canon" is the French equivalent, perhaps the original, of the English "cannon fodder".
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Jacques Barzun--who wrote a book on William James--had a suggestion: every baby born in America should acquire a Ph.D. along with the birth certificate.
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If I remember the obituary correctly, Saul Kripke's terminal degree was a B.A.
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All countries that can afford spies use diplomatic passports for some of them.
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Grumble, grumble. This (at least O'Reilly and Skillsoft) used to be included with the professional membership. And did I ever tell you kids that Hershey Bars cost 5 cents each when I was in grade school?
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Are they? A couple of years ago, I had to remind some disgruntled friends that a very popular president, at the height of his popularity, put out the idea of expanding the court, and failed entirely. You could look it up. Thomas Jefferson,
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So did I, but fiddlerwoaroof evidently has kept up with the news better.
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Actually, for an annual fee you can let your dog run off-leash in Congressional Cemetery in SE Washington, DC. I assume that the cemetery requires that you clean up after your dog. The one dog owner I knew who paid the fee certainly would h
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C.S. Peirce had good things to say about him.
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I was inside the old Post building on 15th St. NW twice: once for an interview for a job that I didn't really remember applying for; once to buy copies of the election-night edition in 2008. But I think I recall still pictures from &qu
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That depends, or depended. According to something I read years ago, the Army does not want you to run in Arlington Cemetery. The Archdiocese of Washington had no objection to runners in the cemeteries that it owns.
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My recollection from many years ago is that Norman Mailer coined "factoid" to refer that what looked like facts, were offered as facts, but weren't facts.
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The Washington Post is itself showing signs of news aversion. Their local news is pretty scant these days.
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Maybe we should turn to Ryan Gosling. Didn't he save jazz?
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You could argue that colleges served the same purpose in the 1960s.
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It is the Latin for armpit, and related to the (obsolete) English "oxter" for the same.
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If one can trust David Ferry, Horace's remark on Cestus means rather that Cestus should write from his own experience and with his own diction rather than borrowing from his predecessors (I suppose Greeks). (David Ferry, The Epistles

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