Word: haha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Mitchell Wilder had put on his first "new accessions" show two years ago. "Some of the museums may have had the feeling that we wanted to exhibit their pictures and give them the haha. We had no such thought in mind and were very circumspect...
...Humphry Davy (1778-1829) named it aluminum. British scientists changed it to aluminium to harmonize with sodium, lithium, etc. Britain still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently...
...massa runs, haha...
France's pudgy Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux insisted that the plot was "widespread" and must be taken seriously. Said the Paris newspaper L'Aurore: "Lamballe? Why, there is, in that old Breton village, a street called 'L'Impasse du Haha.' . . ."** For reasons that will remain obscure to Americans this is regarded in France as a brilliant political crack, explaining everything...