Apply two topcoats, particularly to areas that are fully exposed to the weather such as the south side of the house. A total of three coats (primer and two topcoats) should result in an optimum thickness of 4-1/2 to 5 mils.

In order better to appreciate the use of argot among thieves, a visit to a few public bars of the third-class public houses of Kennington or in the immediate vicinity of the Elephant and Castle would prove of great value, as hoisters, whizzers, tea-leaves, con-heads, broadsmen and brass nobs […]

Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.

[Hans] Jonas emphasized years ago that the prospect of genetic control, though cloning and other means, raises ethical questions of a wholly new kind, for which we are profoundly unprepared. … Is it defensible in any sense, for instance, to set out forthwith to create grade A individuals, kids made to order, whether designed as privileged deciders of policy or merely dumb drones for the duller humdrum chores of life?