He had no doubt that they would all have highly convincing stories, and would try to blind him with science if he attempted to pin them down.

In 1986, Allied Bakeries introduced softgrain white bread, which contained significantly more fibre than ordinary white bread (Maslowska 1991). The softgrain white bread market, which surged in the late 1980s, foreshadowed the return of white bread and the premiumization of the sector that was to follow in the 1990s.

to plumb the depths of despair

In many places trcas are divided into ekarcas, hymns of mono-verses; maybe this MS follows a different version of SV.