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...Naturalist Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne and Novelist George Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. Nan Fairbrother does not so much write as compose, in model sentences and paragraphs. She describes the natural world about her in fresh images, e.g., "The fir trees, seen from above, are as neat and composed as cats sitting by the fire in the circle of their tails." The change that has come over old rural England is made plain as she observes that "the cowman now feels closer to his electric milking-machine than to his cows...
...when members of the Institute for Advanced Study whispered that Eliot was writing Greek letters on the Institute's blackboards, during his year of residence there. Far from trying to emulate the physicists and logicians, Eliot was merely working his own kinds of unique mathematics; all of his plays fir the same two forms, the simultaneous equation of Greek myth and Christian theology...
Members of Sugrue's gang make up the posts in University shops. They are made of fir four-by-fours with a one-by-six cross-piece, and are painted with "outside white" house paint. Building a set of posts for both ends of the field takes a single man about a day. It takes a crew of four to raise them...
Others, more or less lucky, may leave the field feet-first with their souvenir of the game firmly imbedded in their scalp. Fir though they be, falling goal post timbers have put more than one rejoicing scholar out of the weekend picture...
Most of Oregon's Willamette River was shaded to the water's edge by a vast and unbroken Douglas fir forest in 1845, but two optimistic New Englanders who had just decided to found a metropolis on its west bank paid little attention to this awesome sylvan roadblock. They had a more important problem-picking a name for their dream city. Neither wasted a moment considering any local Indian words. Massachusetts-born Asa Lovejoy insistently cried: "Boston!" Maine-born Francis Pettygrove stubbornly cried: "Portland!" Finally they tossed a big, old-fashioned copper one-cent piece. Petty-grove...