One unfortunate individual endeavouring to disinsectise a newly-arrived aircraft will, no doubt, still remember being rudely ordered out by an irate Allied captain of aircraft flourishing a loaded revolver.

To boast mendaciously about one’s own gang and to slander and defame other gangs are acts everywhere officially regarded as creditable and even pious. It is as though our rulers, instead of merely tolerating prostitution, were to proclaim the brothel to be a place as sacred as the cathedral and as improving as the public library.

It is upon the ideas of 'repeated experimentation' and the law of averages that many of our notions of chance are founded.

Plantae, Betulaceae, Helianthemum, Zea mays and Stellaria media subsp. media are botanical names.