Fri 12 Dec, 2014 01:20 am - A person receiving subsidies as a part of the ACA, receives an amount commensurate with an approved low-cost plan, usually a bronze level plan. The cost of this approved plan will depend upon the... (view)
Fri 12 Dec, 2014 12:58 am - I am currently working through an obscure text on classical rhetoric, and I have just finished the first couple of chapters dealing with the syllogism and enthymeme. The text lists six criteria for... (view)
Thu 18 Aug, 2011 08:19 pm - Can anyone tell me the name of the stringlike piece of plastic one pulls around the top end of a cigarette package to remove the plastic?
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Tue 2 Aug, 2011 09:29 am - I suppose they were just sitting there.
Seriously though, they do not constitute a major portion of the story, which is a fantasy centered around a marvelously weird museum. (view)
Tue 2 Aug, 2011 03:33 am - Nevermind. I was looking up the plural in the OED, but I have just found the singular there.
For anyone interested, "merd" means a piece of excrement. (view)
Tue 2 Aug, 2011 02:47 am - Neither Webster nor the OED electronic seems to know. The context, from Nabokov's "The Visit to the Museum," is as follows: "sacrilegists...were altogether very purple-faced... (view)
