Instead of talking to the agent at AAA, the professor, the librarian, the travel agent, or the cinemaphile two doors down, we are interacting with electronic social agents.

The truth is that cattlemen love a typical cow for her beauty and symmetry of form ; but every herd-testing dairyman knows that an ugly animal may be a good producer, while many a beautiful cow is a duffer.

An avowed aim of the 1962 Transport Act was to concentrate the BRB's attention on running trains.

Then, Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink round it!