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Newman has found prepositions especially unruly. There are about 25 of them, and their meanings overlap irrationally. The preposition through has at least 13 meanings. It can mean by use of (to speak through an interpreter) and finished with (through with work). Newman proposes to replace unruly prepositions with new Ruly terms that have single meanings. Howby, for instance, will mean mode of proximate cause. Sometimes it will replace by (take by force), or with (to kill with kindness), or through (to cure through surgery). But it will always have the same basic meaning, so that even the most literal...
Under the terms of statehood, Alaska's two Senate seats are called Term A and Term B. In order to provide the groundwork for the constitutionally required overlap of senatorial terms, one has a tenure of four years, the other of six, but the Senate will decree which is which only after the Nov. 25 election. Bartlett filed for Term...
...optimistic was Astronomer Thomas Gold of Harvard. Gold pointed out that the ring-shaped meteor craters on the moon can be given comparative ages by the way they overlap, and that the walls of the oldest ones are generally low. This means, said Gold, that during the 4 billion years or so of the moon's life, its exposed rock has been slowly turned into dust by bombardment of rays and particles from the sun and space. The dust, kept stirred up by the same agents that formed it, has flowed like a slow liquid into the moon...
Council Not to Overlap...
...Overlap. In Tokyo, everyone was ruled blameless after a three-car collision involving 1) an expectant mother being rushed to the hospital in a taxi, 2) an off-duty traffic inspector chasing the cab, 3) the lady's obstetrician...