Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
...excitable elder statesman suspected every egg set before him of being from Moscow. What drove him frantic was that he could not be sure! "In Great Britain, Belgium and Germany it is otherwise!", stormed he to correspondents. "With great wisdom those countries stamp imported eggs with an indication of origin at the frontier.† France must do the same! Millions of eggs from Moscow are being dumped upon us, Messieurs. I have information that the Paris market has been swamped with these Soviet eggs- eggs of such poor quality as to constitute a menace to the public health...
...indication of origin shall be conspicuously and durably marked in ink on the shell of each imported egg in letters not less than two millimetres in height...
...some reason, members of the legal profession, unlike their fellows in Medicine, have never felt the urge to render gratuitous service to mankind; and this is perhaps natural enough, for legal entanglements are rarely a matter of life and death. Hence the origin, although a comparatively recent one to be sure, of various "legal aid" societies, which, according to Dean Pound, are due to remain as an indispensable part of our present day civilization...
Globe Trotters, another travel magazine of "different" design, is scheduled for publication this autumn. Subscription will be included in membership in Globe Trotters, an organization established three months ago in the U. S. on a plan of English origin...