Indeed, the first comparative studies of bone turnover in runners with amenorrhoea or eumenorrhoea and untrained controls demonstrated reduced bone formation, […]

[John] Evelyn was astonished at the immense number of pictures he saw in the Dutch fairs. He attributes the briskness of the trade in paintings to the necessary limitations of the country. The farmer or the citizen of sea-locked Holland, unable to lay out his gains on tracts of land, found a medium for speculation or investment in these works of art.

And, after all that, what remains, nearly a century later, is a small number of pretty pieces left in vast acres of flotsam: what atticfuls of stale old dust!

For quotations using this term, see Citations:for the Gipper.