At a symposium on Sport and Recreation held in Manchester recently, Mr. R. C. Macmillan, a specialist in park administration said that he sometime noticed idle youngfolk gathered in groups, both boys and girls, at the park gate where their conversation was neither good nor healthy for teenagers.
But I do quarrel with those who under the guise of friendship for labor assume the role of infracaninophiles and then proceed to sabotage everything that means anything to labor.
From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.
[Obadiah B.] Brown gave his machine—which combined the principles of the phénakistocope (derived from Greek words meaning, roughly, “to show movement of a target or object”) and the magic lantern—the equally improbable name of phasmatrope (a “turning apparition”).