Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fringe-topped surreys and jerry-built vehicles of varying durability fill out the party. The passengers are instant minor celebrities in each small town they pass. Villagers look, wave, offer plates of homemade cookies and other food, and sometimes get bitten by the bug and join up. The historic sort of leisure exerts a unique pull on the mind. Wagonmaster Keith Kreykes, 52, a cook, in the course of the journey has headed up as many as 48 wagons carrying up to 150 people. "You forget what day it is, and you forget the time pressure," says his wife Gale...
...things do change. Ellis Island is a sort of museum...
...stored in piles. And instead of letting one craftsman toil over each plate, Wedgwood introduced a division of labor for faster production. He also had a way of treating important customers so that, as he says, "they will, by being consulted and flatter'd agreeably, consider themselves as sort of parties in the affair...
...Indians, whom other travelers have found to be fickle and fierce, Bartram has had no trouble. Indeed, he sees the red men as dwellers in a sort of paradise, well supplied with food and shelter. The Seminoles of Florida, he writes, are "as blithe and free as the birds of the air, and like them as volatile and active, tuneful and vociferous." All Indians are a long way from being ignorant savages, he observes: "These people are both well-tutored and civil ... It is from the most delicate sense of the honour and reputation of their tribes and families that...
...Luther's preface to Romans at a service in London in 1738. Unlike the usual Anglican priest, Wesley set out to spread assurance of salvation to Britons of all classes. Still indefatigable at his 73rd birthday last month, Wesley also insists on "doing good of every possible sort" for the needy. He requires a puritanical code of his flock: no swearing, Sabbath work, buying or selling liquor, brawling, or wearing of rich apparel...