To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work.

a grand lodge

This four months' lastingness would doubtless be sensibly reduced if the tent were subject to numerous transportations and repitchings.

[A]s sportsmen I think that we should stick to our knitting and not allow economic or social conditions to interfere with the Olympic Games.