At one university the navy made me attend, I took out a Chaucer which had lines scissored out […]

The lens form having the least optical aberrations is called the best form lens. For most powers of spectacle lenses the best for is a meniscus lens.

On the night before her wedding Channa Washinsky would certainly have immersed herself in the ritually cleansing waters of the mikveh.

Och ! an' aven agaiust a shprig of shillelagh, in some parts of ould Ireland ; and that's how they originally mixed op that sart of warship in Tipperary with the good Christian warship of the rale Jasus, an' sure, didn't Father Marphy ixplain arle this when he came a-praiching abote the wicked thrink carled whiskey, the dradful sparit of the devil ; every praist that came to us was a Curete, and we had fair chance of being saved until the horrid Saxons took 'em from us, and carled 'em Curates, and kept them in thondering England ever since.