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There have been 16 ounces (Latin undo) to the English pound (Latin pondus) ever since the Romans invaded Britain MCMXXII years ago. The yard is 36 inches long because England's Henry I (1100-1135) decreed that it should equal the distance from a man's outstretched thumb to his nose. Indeed the whole British system of weights and measures is fraught with tradition, and for that reason it is frightfully hard to work with, as generations of British schoolchildren, agonizing over gills, pecks and rods, have learned...
...Club octet for a short sport at 7:20 a.m. When he learned that my choice of eight singers included a Negro, he warned that this octet, appearing at the beginning of the day would give segregationists a chance to organize violence or threats of violence which could thus undo all the good to be gained by having the event...
Whether she did it to catch a prince, like Rapunzel, or to avoid a taxing situation, like Godiva, the girl who took down her hair in days of yore never thought twice about the trouble involved. But then, why should she? She had nothing to undo but a braid or a ribbon and presto, crowning glorysville! It is only the modern maid who spends the better part of her days putting up her hair and is not about to take it down until she's good and ready...
...were really not evil. what could they do against such a fast, curved pitch? Quite predictably they squelched the vote which would probably have put me into the top four, locking it up in their dignified closets. But resist though they might my actual physical election, they could not undo the damage that had been done. The seriousness of my cause, or causes, lived an imperishable life in the humor which surrounded...
Shared Plant. But the Government refused to give up. It brought suit, not to block the merger but to undo it. And strangely, the heart of the trustbusters' argument was not so much the present merger but a 24-year-old agreement between the two papers to share a printing plant and an advertising staff-a clear violation, the Government claimed, of the restraint-of-trade and antimonopoly sections of the Sherman...