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...never recognize the demure little old pastime of roller skating the way they have it fixed up nowadays. If you haven't already thrilled to the daring intricacies of the Roller Derby through television (and this is well nigh impossible to avoid if you watch TV in the evening for any length of time), they are on view nightly at the Mechanics Building...
...Simplification of U.S. customs procedure. The British object to technicalities which classify sheep shears as a "surgical instrument," and by which rugs with fringes on them get charged as lace because the law puts fringes in the lace-and-trimmings category. The U.S. customs maze is well-nigh impenetrable to the would-be British trader without customs-broker guidance, which adds to the cost of British goods...
Penney chose his partners carefully, paying as much attention to the wife as to the man ("a good woman's power to encourage is well nigh unlimited"). Once he found the right partner, he gave him a share of any profits and trusted him completely. By 1924 he was calling himself "the man with a thousand partners." Penney's 50,000 "associates" (employees) still share in the profits after a year's service...
...tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...
...Letters" series, Hawthorne's biographers did not do much research on the facts of his life. Instead, they have speculated and commented, with varying degrees of critical acumen and psychological acuteness, on his published works. One result is that in the past 50 years a series of well-nigh indistinguishable opuses have been written about him. Their general story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father, a sea captain, died when he was three; that he went to Bowdoin, lived in seclusion after graduation, and published his first stories anonymously...