We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary. — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the Mathematical Tables… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“He revels in obscure words, as in his list of phobias including pteronophobia (tickling with feathers), xenoglossophobia (foreign languages), scorodophobia (garlic), as well as… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. “My botherations often won’t let me work,”11 he complained. He” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“A reporter covering the event—mostly out of bemusement—went on to identify the lexicographer and language columnist Ben Zimmer, editor of the pathbreaking Visual Thesaurus,… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force. — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“Nicholson Baker, a man who knows the joys of obsessive research, has already started the division. “Let me tell you,” he says, “I remember… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
