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Hopping deftly through three centuries, Bentick-Smith has arranged his materials so that the life and traditions of the University stand out clearly through all the varieties of style, custom, and point of view...
...people took to living in underground houses sunk into the sand. The British diggers found remains of their pottery, tools and weapons of stone, bone and iron, and many mysterious pebbles painted with crude designs. The pebbles are believed to be connected in some way with their custom of tattooing their bodies...
...fact is that most of Britain's vivid new airplanes are not yet in real production. It is British custom to show new models while they are still in the prototype stage. In the security-conscious (and sometimes security-bogged) U.S., a new airplane sometimes flies for years before the public gets a peek...
Lest you give the impression that there is any "Scotchness" about the Irish, I should like to point out for the record as an Irishman who traveled on the Dublin-Belfast train that the custom is to throw a raol into the Boyne when passing and not a meager penny as you said...
...night of May 19th, he decides to forget about flying and see the Broadway musical, Rio Rita. But, by nightly custom, he checks on weather first. A surprise report: partial clearing over the Atlantic. He orders his plane readied for flight at dawn, and near midnight turns in for two hours' sleep, but only tosses and turns...