The pneumatic trough used at Calne was larger than that he had used in Leeds, and fresh water was not so conveniently at hand.

Duck! There's a branch falling off the tree!

It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system. No aspect of schooling has been more severely criticized than reading instruction. The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.

The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.