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Comment #48884864
"v. [with obj.] Brit. informal criticize severely and reject as worthless: 'he has pointedly rubbished professional estimates of the development and running costs.'" New Oxford Ame…
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Comment #48173618
"The supposed inconsistency between _Brown_ and the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment has assumed enormous importance in modern debate over constitutional theory. Such i…
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Comment #47491141
Two other lists I know of address the same topic. Modern Library put together in 1999 a list of the 100 best novels and 100 best non-fiction books [1]. (The best novel was Ulysses.…
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Comment #47095259
Offhand, yes, this looks legal, under section 22 of the Trade Act of 1974. Such tariffs, however, are limited to 150 days and a maximum rate of 15%.
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Comment #43656672
In Standard ML, you can do either 1+2 or op+(1, 2).
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Comment #43575069
Two other single-handed round-the-world accounts I enjoyed are Robin Lee Graham's _Dove_ (the name of his boat), and Chay Blyth's _The Impossible Voyage_. Graham's voyage was notew…
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Comment #43534800
Note that these lectures are from 1989, but the definition of Standard ML was revised in 1997. See, e.g., https://www.smlnj.org/sml97.html .
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Comment #42655978
One of the most famous accounts, also universally acclaimed, is Primo Levi's Survival at Auschwitz. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/22/primo-levi-aus...
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Comment #42488805
Highly recommend John Ciardi's essay on this poem, "Robert Frost: The Way to the Poem" (1958). https://issues.aperture.org/article/1958/3/3/robert-frost-th...
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Comment #40536977
1. I think "fairly easy" badly mischaracterizes its difficulty. 2. I found Harry Blackmire, The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, very helpful.
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