Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German Physicist Philipp Lenard wrote a paper describing how the splashing of falling water charges the surrounding air with electricity. Recently, Welsh-born Physicist Edward Pierce decided to check out Lenard's theory that each waterdrop's skin of negative ions is stripped off and discharged into the atmosphere as the drop breaks up when it hits a surface. At first, Pierce haunted waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley. Suddenly he realized that "many of Lenard's experiments could be performed in a bathroom, and have indeed been constantly operating in American bathrooms...
Dunn teaches one undergraduate course: Celtic 100. "Celtic Literature in Translation." Some undergraduates also attend his courses in Middle Irish, Early Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic...
...Harvard, Dunn had taught Celtic Literature in Translation, Middle Irish, Early Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and seminars on Middle Celtic. He won't say how many languages he can speak or read. "But if I were isolated on a desert island," he speculates, "I would quite naturally study whatever was at hand, I suppose...
Died. Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones, 66, Tony's father, a wealthy, thrice-married, retired Welsh barrister, who proudly pronounced his commoner son's wedding to Princess Margaret "the most democratic moment I have ever seen"; of cancer; in Caernarvonshire, Wales...
...China, they have no chop suey; in Italy, you have to hunt to find a pizza with mushrooms; in Wales, a Welsh rabbit is only a rabbit; in Turkey, there are no turkeys; in Daiquiri (Cuba), it is almost impossible to find a daiquiri; India ink is made in China or Japan; in Spain, there is no Spanish rice...