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...those strips of foil were called "window" (singular), and that we dropped them . . .to get the enemy's damned radar-controlled searchlights and guns off our actually large formations. . .It was kind of comforting to hide behind a "window" screen-with the big accurate flak laying on the tin foil below and behind us, rather than on the steel foil armor plate we were sitting...
...shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously he shakes the brush, prevent water from dribbling down his forearm and wetting his sleeve once he starts shaving. Gonk has also, of course, carried out some brilliant research on collar-studs, shoelaces, tin-openers, and the Third Programme atmospherics...
...Collar-studs" means collar-buttons. "Tin-openers" is British for can-openers. "Third Programme atmospherics" refers to static interfering with higher-browed broadcasts of the BBC. *Kant's view of the Ding ais sich (Thing-in-itself) may have been influenced by the fact that nothing whatever, not even marriage, ever happened to Immanuel Kant. He lived all his life in or near Königsburg; his habits were so regular that neighbors used to set their watches by his comings & goings...
...Bradley University at Peoria, Ill. offered a four-year course in "music-business," to teach students about the flora & fauna of Tin Pan Alley, and the higher mathematics of the concert industry...
...York's delegation started the symbolic march along the aisles, blowing tin whistles. It took a long time working up steam, but it was not until 32 minutes later that Joe Martin, barking like the neighbor's old dog to whom no one ever pays any attention, restored order. The seconding speeches began...