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Editor's drawer — From the July 1921 issue
Editor's drawer — From the May 1921 issue
Editor's drawer — From the May 1921 issue
Editor's drawer — From the January 1918 issue
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Editor's drawer — From the November 1902 issue
Poetry — From the November 1884 issue
Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
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