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To keep up -with the news, an intelligent human being has to watch the language. It lives and changes constantly, with the development of new words and expressions and new uses for old words and expressions. Keeping up with the language in this week's TIME: aminotriazole. Bad for Thanksgiving. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.). crotchet. A quarter note. See Music, Family Orchestra.

dialytic parabiosis. A modern technique reminiscent of 17th century experiments in blood transfusion. See MEDICINE, Sheep's Blood Bath.

Edsel (obs.). The wrong car in the wrong place at the wrong time....

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