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...spelling, Gerard H. Matthes of Manhattan, in a recent letter to Science, weekly organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, pointed out that in writings of half a century ago and earlier, it was stated that the name was given because of the "muscle shells" (sic) found there. "Muscle" seems to have been the original form and was applied because of the strong muscle which holds the two shells of these bivalves together. In 1875, a standard dictionary did not give any variant to the spelling "muscle shell," and not until about 1895 was the form "mussel...
...Triumvirate (Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev) ordered Trotzky's magnificent train-it included a diner, sleeper, library car and Avas fitted with a printing press and a radio set-to be uncoupled and put on the regular railway service. The 150 men employed on the train have been discharged. Sic transit gloria Trotsky...
...this is timely, and in the right (sic) direction, also correlative with the trend of modern culture (sic). Art should be crowded into the Box Office, there is no room for it on the stage. Art was at one time the acknowledged leader (Premium Mobile) of Education. Art has been rudely trucked to Hell. Education will most certainly follow,--weeping...
...will be only a temporary milestone. In 1926, a bridge will be completed across the Delaware from Philadelphia to Camden, whose main span is to be 120 ft. longer. Sic transit gloria longitudinis...
...this is to be true, all that will remain of Boston in another fifty years will be a scattered, sleepy, ivy-covered New England town, whose emblem, one imagines, will bear the pathetic words "Sic Transit", and whose old men will have nothing to do but gather on the steps of the hotel in the evening and converse with one another of the city's departed greatness...