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...formula often has instructive results. In "Prayers and Pluralism," Lewis Burleigh gives a good discussion of the Supreme Court decisions of on prayer in public schools, and John Brandl performs a similar service in "World Views in the Social Sciences...
...tabloid Daily Sketch, while the Church of England newspaper warned against "blurring" of the "precise dogmatic cleavage" between the two churches. The Rev. Howard Stanley, secretary of the Congregational Union, said that Congregationalists would wish the Archbishop well; but the moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Rev. John Burleigh, sniffed that it was "nice of the Archbishop to call on the Pope, but I hope only pleasantries will be exchanged...
...They keep children awake," cried Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Adjuring their lordships to moderate their indignation. Lord Taylor finally moved a compromise: ban the Good Humor bells before noon and after 7 p.m., and thereby save the country from the worst of it. After two hours and some 23 speeches, the House passed the bill as amended. Grumbled Earl Attlee. author of the welfare state and liberator of India: "Before we assent to these bells, I think we should know a little more...
Double Splash. After getting a rare permit from the Australian government to catch platypuses, which are rigidly protected, Fleay made 22 sorties from his home in West Burleigh, Queensland. Tramping along the streams in a moving cloud of mosquitoes, he watched for the ripples stirred by swimming platypuses and listened for the characteristic double splash they make when they hit the water. In likely places he set funnel-mouthed box traps, caught a few adult platypuses and lots of eels and catfish...
Live Food. Back at West Burleigh, Fleay began the delicate job of conditioning the platypuses for life in The Bronx. They were installed in a Fleay-designed platypusary with a water tank and grass-lined burrows that simulated as closely as possible their natural habitat. Every afternoon Fleay took them from the burrows and put them in the tank. He encouraged visitors ("It helps them get accustomed to people and noise...