Nancy Niemczyk
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@Wayne Harrison. When I was in high school in the 1980s, I very much wanted to be an educated person, so I tried to do things educated people did, like listen to WQXR and do the Sunday NYT crossword puzzle. Using all the resources in my house (dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas) on a really good Sunday I could complete a quarter of the puzzle. Then I left for college and didn’t try the puzzle again until March 2020, when I suddenly had some time on my hands. Much to my surprise, after a few months I could often do Sunday puzzles without help. But if I google something I could have looked up in the paper resources in my childhood home, I don’t count it as cheating. So I am granting you a gold star for today, as I could have found Sanaa in the atlas or encyclopedia. (Just my personal rule.)
The metal brackets that hold oars in place in a row boat are called, “oarlocks.”
As a nurse-midwife, I was delighted by this!
Felt misogynistic to me.
In broad daylight, yesterday, I read a Poet's mystic lay; And it seemed to me at most As a phantom, or a ghost. - Longfellow
I believe baleen (an excellent spelling bee word) was originally the main material for corset stays.)
@Stewkak Archie Goodwin uses “c-spot” in the 1930’s Nero Wolfe novels. That’s how I learned it!
Is the grid a visual representation of Magneto?
@Eric Hoagland. If you live in Pittsburgh, Mellon is a given!
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