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...Meaning: experimental (X) patrol bomber (PB), second of manufacturer's related design (2), Martin (M), first specimen in its own series...
...with thumbs up and a deafening roar of welcome was astonishing to people who have a doctrinaire view of the U.S. and of U.S. workmen. Lord Halifax, a fox hunter and a gentleman, is aristocracy, and a good example of it. But to New Deal theoreticians, he is a specimen of a declining class. Ever since he arrived in Washington, New Dealers have buzzed with stories of U.S. labor's animosity toward him. Even gentle Poet Carl Sandburg, who could hardly find a harsh word to say about Jeff Davis in his volumes on Lincoln, let fly with...
When Stone was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Agricultural College, botanists were obsessed with taxonomy-classification of plants. But to Stone a tree was not a specimen but a dynamic organism influenced by a complex of environmental factors. In those days linesmen were stringing new telephone and power wires along U.S. streets, hacking mortal wounds in trees and often electrocuting them with leaky wires. New-laid gas pipes, too, were spreading out, poisoning roots along many a shady avenue. And several plagues of insect pests, chiefly in Massachusetts, quickened interest in guarding the health of trees...
...would like you to realize that Halifax is not a representative specimen of the English people any more than Coughlin could justly be described as a "typical American", and I am only expressing a revulsion that is shared by the great majority of the people of Britain. They, unhappily, are not in a position to give expression to their feelings, consequently I feel that the least I can do is to repudiate this cold Tory, not only on my own account but for those who are silenced and terrorised by Emergency Regulations and similar repressions from demanding a delegate...
Today he is more nearly extinct than the bison. Great horns still spring above barroom mirrors; a proud, sad specimen stands stuffed at the Fort Worth airport; Texans still like to call themselves "Longhorns," or "Texas Steers." But until last week the Longhorn was without much honor, or the lore that might bring it to him, save in his own country...