Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The young scholars compiled examples of "folk medicine" ("Warts can be cured by rubbing a black slug on them") and weather lore ("If the wind gets in Gravely Gap, it will rain"), told how the farmers call in their cows ("Coof, coof, nare, nare, nare"). They interviewed all the most...
Teacher Gabriel's bag is full of such tricks. To a moppet who finally manages to play a piece correctly, Gabriel will award a slip of paper with the announcement: "I confer on you the degree of Doctor of the D Major Scale." A bored learner may be allowed...
Early this month, Mary Cerra, 38, complained of arthritis, went to a doctor for treatment. That night, she awakened with a start. She was sure she had seen something earlier in the day-the scales in the doctor's office. Now, she was equally sure, she could see the...
What is the explanation? For one thing, the Canadian government eagerly encourages U.S. capital. Provincial governments vie with each other in offering attractive tax concessions. Canada's labor force is first-rate, its wage scales are lower, its raw materials often cheaper, its markets growing. Most important, however, U.S...
Pots of Pasta. Like the Jeep, Libbey-Owens-Ford glass and Toledo Scales, Mike Di Salle is a made-in-Toledo product. He was born in a tenement in Manhattan's Little Italy, but when he was three his parents, Anthony and Assunda, moved to Toledo. In those days...