The other functions which have significant trends (accounting for 93.8 percent of total unified budget outlays at the mean) total 17.6 percent of potential GNP. Measured at the means, there were more dollars involved in downtrends relative to the economy than in uptrends (due almost entirely to the presence of Function 050 (National defense) among the downward trenders).

In a 29 January 1950 newspaper article he had declared that if The Member of the Wedding was not a play, he wanted to direct more nonplays […]

It is also noticeable that the black diamond, No. 20, a dull and lusterless substance, is as transparent to the X-rays as the brilliants, while the diamond bortz, No. 6, is much less transparent than either, though more so than the imitation, No 19.

Rushing to the door of the church, [Robert the] Bruce met two powerful barons, [Roger de] Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, and James de Lindsay, who eagerly asked him what tidings? Bad tidings, answered Bruce, I doubt I have slain [John] Comyn. Doubtest thou? said Kirkpatrick, I make sicker (i.e. sure.) With these words, he and Lindsay rushed into the church, and dispatched the wounded Comyn.