Word: porson
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...often done in the past, Symons sets his "comedy" in a thriving town just outside London, among attractive, successful, venal people. This crowd is all connected to PC Travel, a partnership between mean, porcine Charles Porson and charming, handsome Derek Crowley. The plot starts out with a littering of anonymous letters around town, accusing Crowley of an affair with Porson's pretty young wife. There are two clumsy attempts at murder and then two quite successful ones that occur on a PC tour of Venice. If the terrain is familiar to Symons, every detail is fresh, right down...
Bloss is known to have sprayed oil contaninated with dioxin in several Jefferson County horse arenas in the early 1970s Horses, birds and small animals later died in those areas. Bloss did not know the oil, obtained from a chemical company, contained the porson...
...farm is officially defined as "all the land which is directly farmed by one porson either by his own labor alone, or with the assistance of members of his household or hired employees." Each piece of land cultivated by a tenant cropper or manager is rated as a farm...
...obscure text of the "Parmenuides," must be rare. Scholars are consoling themselves over Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation...
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