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...would pay for half a dozen wars, if we could find nothing better to spend it on." Though Shaw never settled on any of the many alphabets proposed to him, he did favor one that would have made the sentence "From Dodderdyke to Pope Shotten is sixteen miles or thereabout" look like...
...notice comes from observant Samuel Pepys. In his diary for April 26, 1664, Pepys writes: "Home to the Old Exchange by coach, where great news and true, I saw by written letters, of strange fires seen at Amsterdam in the air-and not only there, but in other places thereabout...
Lever was contesting the Wirral (Cheshire) district, in opposition to one Holt. The year was 1908 or thereabout...
...journey by train and horse. At Alishar, rare and well-preserved examples of Hittite culture were unearthed in a mound twelve layers deep, one dead city atop its dead predecessor. Out of the dusty ruins were dug instruments for which the diggers could find no obvious use. The peasants thereabout still living in a partly Stone Age condition solved the difficulties by exhibiting some of their own utensils of husbandry-flint-pronged threshing boards, wooden water jars, grain cradles, grinding stones. The relics, some of them beautiful in glaze and form, with an estimated age of 4,000 years, point...
...tender age of 23, or thereabout, Mr. Gilbert became a law clerk in a firm of Manhattan lawyers. Here he remained for nearly three years, lost in the midst of Manhattan's hordes. In 1918, he became a member of the War Loan Staff, did valuable work, received due recognition. In June of 1920, when not yet 28 years of age, he was nominated by President Wilson as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When the Harding Administration succeeded that of Mr. Wilson, he was reappointed to the assistant secretaryship and in June of the same year, his importance...