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  2. Till and Tiller.

    "TILL" and "tiller" both really come from the same old word that used to stand for "draw out." In steering a boat we draw out the tiller-rope to ...

    Article : 90 words
  3. FRIED EGGS AND GLASS.

    How the frying of an egg in a kitchen in Indiana, U.S.A., a few years ago, solved a very perplexing technical problem, in the machine manufacture of glass ...

    Article : 249 words
  4. The Landfall of Columbus.

    IN a paper read before the Royal Geographical Society Lieut-Commander R. T. Gould returns to the muchdebated question of which island in the ...

    Article : 252 words
  5. A Quorum.

    QUORUM means "of whom" in Latin an in the days when all official documents were written in that language, it was the first word of the appointment ...

    Article : 133 words
  6. "Mass Production."

    PUTTING it roughly, in the old days one man made, say, one table, so that ten mon working in a shop together were slowly turning out ten complete ...

    Article : 137 words
  7. Soft Beds for Tired Brains.

    A BRAIN-WORKER derives much greater benefit from his sleep if it is taken on a good, soft bed, rather than on a hard one, is the conclusion arrived ...

    Article : 72 words
  8. CONTENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 words
  9. Spilling the Salt.

    SALT is so named from Salus, the Roman goddess of health, and bad luck is supposed to follow when salt is spilt because the goddess is offended at the lack ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,131 words
  11. The Vacuum Flask.

    ordinary saucepan full of boiling water will, in time, oven with the lid on, become cold. What happens is that the water passes its heat on to the ...

    Article : 162 words
  12. Tariff Jericho.

    "THE Economic Conference is now walls marching in procession round the walls of the tariff Jericho. I do not think that the tariff walls ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. Talboys.

    THE first man called Talboys, or Tallboys, was not, as might be supposed, the father of exceptionally lanky sons, The word is a corruption of the French ...

    Article : 60 words
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