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Unrivaled for the richness and variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...took a long time for Mr. Beven to make up his mind that such rates made good economic sense. About three years ago one of I. C.'s big customers, Commercial Solvents Corp., doubled its barge fleet. Scared I. C. chewed its cud, parleyed with Solvents Corp. for two years. In October it went to the I. C. C. with a petition for trainload rates on molasses. Month ago, I. C. C. brought forth its decision, that ". . . certain other forms of transportation which compete with the railroads can law fully, and do, give the shipper of large quantities...
...Billow's testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed its cud over Royal Oak's sinking in Scapa Flow. Last week Churchill stood up, with even more than his usual show of nimble-wittedness, and admitted for himself and the Admiralty that...
...have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have managed on their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern Classicist Allen Tate and Northern Romantic Wallace Stevens...
Being the only course which rates full credit, English F packs in for one half year all the men trying to learn to speak. It is usually the beginning and cud of their training, for they cannot waste creditless half years in English E and H. Two impromptu talks and three exercises in delivery are the content, along with five major speeches sandwiched between lectures on subjects like persuasion and commanding attention. The semester is capped, mirabile dictu, by a written examination. Thus in effect the sole course, English F tries to accomplish too much, skimming lightly over each topic...