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...both meaning yes. What about a quadruple redundancy? For a hint, Borgmann aims his reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill, all four of them meaning hill. Hence the modern name of the ridge is actually Hillhillhill Hill...
...Portland, Ore. (Music); H.M. Georgi of Far Hills, N.Y. (Physics); R.M. Greenstein of Wyncote, Pa. (History); David Harrison Jr. of Los Angeles, Calif. (Economics); Richard G. Harrison of Baltimore, Md. (Chemistry); Jeremy P. Kagan of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (History and Literature); Philip J. Kapian of Cambridge (Government); Lowry Pei of St. Louis, Mo. (English); Charles Popper of New Rochelle, N.Y. (Applied Math); Victor Rosov of Brooklyn, N.Y. (English); Peter J. Swift of Upper Montclair, N.J. (History) and Mark J. Webber of St. Louis, Mo. (German...
...Kennedy Library will be constructed on the Bennett St. MBTA yards. I.M. Pei, the architect for the Library, has said he would like to see a renewal project in the area around the Library...
There is a widespread belief in China that a national government is not only unnecessary, but all bad. After the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1908, Sun Yat-sen and Generals Wu Pei-fu and Chiang Kai-shek all tried to unify the country, but failed because the city fathers wouldn't cooperate...
Speaking to a local group at the First Congregational Church, Pei estimated that land for building would not become available until 1969 and that at least another two years would be required to complete construction of the Library...