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...since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from A to Zygote, that mankind has ever thought...
...Diabolically Clever." For 23 years Laski seemed to overshadow everyone else at L.S.E., became in the public mind almost a synonym for the school. "My life," he once cried, "is my students!" and some of his students never forgot what he said (in the 1945 election, 67 of them were elected Labor M.P.s). A brilliant man who could read 200 pages in an hour ("diabolically clever and omniscient," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), he was also a spectacular lecturer. Sometimes gesturing excitedly and sometimes staring motionless at his palm, he spoke "with a force and conviction," recalls one student, "that...
...your Jan. 30 report on Eric Partridge's Name into Word, you say: "[In 1759], France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager, and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
...Irish Land League gave the silent treatment to a hated estate agent named Captain Charles Boycott. The method they used stuck, and so did boycott. A century before, France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
...hangman named Derrick is immortalized in hoisting devices, French Physician Joseph Guillotin in a machine which struck him as more humane than the ax, and be-trousered Suffragette Amelia Bloomer in billowing pantalets. It is a process that has never stopped, concludes Partridge happily-from Solon, who became a synonym for lawyer, to Mae West, who became a life jacket...