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Dear marjorum: When a lot ofmoney was involved, good New England business men
seldom let their conscience bother them.
I used to think Thor Heyerdahl was marvelous. It appears to be well cocumented that he
was more interested in becoming famous than he was in being truthful.
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> good New England business men
From what I can find on line, Frederic Tudor sounds like the classic yankee success story of perseverence in the face of difficulties.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,6121,650835,00.html
"If you are looking for a classic example of the most particularly American virtue - commercial ingenuity boosted by extraordinary perseverance - then Frederic Tudor is your paradigm. ... Tudor's problem was getting the stuff (ice) from here to there without meltdown in transit ... Doggedly, Tudor tried one form of insulation after another ...
The ultimate triumph came 32 years after the brainwave first struck ... until 1849 he was perpetually in debt, narrowly escaping imprisonment for unpaid bills and enduring a nervous breakdown on the way. Competitors entered the market and he could only beat them off by undercutting them, which was not an invariably successful strategy. There were other, non-commercial, forms of hostility, as well as much ridicule. Thoreau was scathing when Tudor started cutting ice from Walden Pond"
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Husband is the house farmer. Bonde is Norwegian for a "farmer," hence bondė-by (a village where
farmers dwell); and hus means "house." Hus-band-man is the man-of-the-house farmer. The husband,
therefore, is the master farmer, and the husband-man the servant or labourer. "Husbandry" is the
occupation of a farmer or husband; and a bondman or bondslave has no connection with bond = fetters,
or the verb to bind. It means simply a cultivator of the soil.
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Hussy A little hussy. A word of slight contempt, though in some counties it seems to mean simply girl, as
"Come hither, hussy." Of course, the word is a corruption of housewife or hussif. In Swedish hustru
means woman in general. It is rather remarkable that mother in Norfolk has given rise to a similar sort of
word, morther, as "Come hither, morther" - i.e. girl. Neither hussy nor morther is applied to married
women. In Norfolk they also say mor for a female, and bor for the other sex. Moer is Dutch for woman
in general, and boer for peasant, whence our boor.
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Hustings House - things or city courts. London has still its court of Hustings in Guildhall, in which are
elected the lord mayor, the aldermen, and city members. The hustings of elections are so called because,
like the court of Hustings, they are the places of elective assemblies. (Anglo-Saxon, husting, a place of
council.)
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Hyades (3 syl.). Seven nymphs placed among the stars, in the constellation Taurus, which threaten rain
when they rise with the sun. The fable is that they wept the death of their brother Hyas so bitterly, that
Zeus (1 syl.), out of compassion, took them to heaven, and placed them in the constellation Taurus.
(Greek, huein, to rain.)
A bit of trivia: The emblem of Subaru, because it is result of merger ofseven small Japanese car companies
is a representation of the Hyades
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Hyksos A tribe of Cuthites (2 syl.), driven out of Assyria by Aralius and the Shemites. They founded in
Egypt a dynasty called Hyksos (shepherd kings), a title assumed by all the Cuthite chiefs. This dynasty,
which gave Egypt six or eight kings, lasted 259 years, when the whole horde was driven from Egypt, and
retired to Palestine. It is from these refugees that the lords of the Philistines arose. The word is
compounded of hyk (king) and sos (shepherd).
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Hyssop David says (Ps. li. 7): "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean." The reference is to the
custom of someone who was ceremoniously "clean" sprinkling the unclean (when they came to present
themselves in the Temple) with a bunch of hyssop dipped in water, in which had been mixed the ashes of
a red heifer. This was done as they left the Court of the Gentiles to enter the Court of the women
(Numbers xix. 17).
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I This letter represents a finger, and is called in Hebrew yod or jod (a hand).
I wonder if "jod" is in any way related to Greek "iota".
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Ichor (I'-kor). The colourless blood of the heathen deities. (Greek, ichor, juice.)
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