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The two chief characters in John M. Morton's farce, usually called Box and Cox. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Box the CompassBox A B C D E F G H I…
What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will our rivals or neighbours say? The phrase is from Tom Morton's Speed the Plough. In the first scene Mrs. Ashfield shows herself very jealous of…
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Raymond Kurzweil, 1948–, KURZWEIL READING MACHINE. When entrepreneur Kurzweil introduced the Kurzweil Reading Machine in 1976, it was hailed as the most important advance in reading for the…
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