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...Born a few months apart in 1908, Fingleton and Bradman were team-mates but never friends. On their first meeting, they had a Pride and Prejudice moment that set the tone of their relationship. Fingleton mispronounced the word tetanus, and Bradman corrected him with what Fingleton, a highly sensitive man except, it seems, where the feelings of others were concerned, perceived as scorn...
...little bit. With a name that is the same as an item that hangs clothes on a washing line, you're going to get it. The worst was when it went into the realm of pig. But I chose to be called Pegg. I wasn't born with the name. I took it on when my mother remarried. So it's my own fault...
...urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child "a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things." These days you can buy your baby daughter a BORN TO SHOP onesie with little pink purses...
...work on a gene and when you knock it out you lose the whole throat, but you get a little worm and it actually is born and crawls around on the plate” Mango said. “The first time I saw the mutant phenotype I was just completely smitten...
...American writers have received a good share of Nobel Prizes in literature. From Sinclair Lewis (1930) to Toni Morrison (1993) there have been a total of ten winners.” Sollors added that the United States has long been a destination for other writers, citing Russian-born Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, an Irish writer who spent years teaching at Harvard. Several professors added that the broad indictment contained in Engdahl’s comment weakened his point because it amounted to a sloppy generalization. “What he is talking about is definitely not academic criticism...