Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray and others, under spit (Vol. IX, Pt. I, p. 628), he will find cited such English colloquialisms as: "you are a queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found...
...threatened, "I'm going to liquidate this poultry farm! I'm going to sell my hens for a measly $1.50 in inflated pesetas each! I'm going to abandon chicken houses, laying racks, individual pens and equipment on which I've spent $10,000! Yes sir, I'm going to salvage what I can and clear out of Spain...
...splendor of British pageantry was relied on to silver-line the cloudy fact that at this session of Parliament the last measures to insure a gas mask for everyone in the United Kingdom are to be taken under direction of Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. This potent statesman who in recent years gave India her new Constitution then made "The Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both...
...latest dispatches, and Christians were blowing up still more Moslem homes in reprisal for the burning of the airport. The Mohammedan world, familiar with the methods of a Christian whom they called "The Strongman of Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem villagers were too poor...
...acquire one. Rutherford was unimpressed. In Brussels, Cockroft asked Lawrence to give the old physicist a sales talk. Lawrence assented. Lord Rutherford declared it to be one of his principles that the equipment used at Cavendish should be developed there. Young Dr. Lawrence made a quick-witted thrust: "Sir, you use spectrometers in the laboratory every day, but they weren't invented there, were they...