Just a few days ahead of its planned initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, Twitter has raised the price range for its shares to $23 to $25, up from the original target of $17 to $20. The move, which could value the company at up to $13.6 billion, means that investors should be even more wary of taking a flutter on the firm's stock http://econ.st/1aoTIv9
Here's where we move from fact to plausibility. In the 1880s, many American newspapers began using 'chestnut' in the way we do now, to refer to hoary, oft-repeated stories, and the term became established in the common lingo thereafter. The 'old' was added later as an intensifier.
What Muncie Read
By ANNE TRUBEK
People make hoary generalizations about changing American reading habits but we actually know very little about the history of reading.
Slither, Flutter and Glow: Lure of Nocturnal Creatures
By LISA W. FODERARO
Mike Feller, New
York City's chief naturalist, ventures into Alley Pond Park in Queens at
night looking for creatures like slugs, spiders, moths and beetles.
Japan's knuckleball girl takes lossSI.com - USA
KOBE, Japan (AP) -Japan's first female professional baseball player struggled with her control and took her first loss. Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old who ...
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In plumbing, a trap is a U-, S-, or J-shaped pipe located below or within a plumbing fixture. An S-shaped trap is also known as the S-bend invented by Alexander ...
dunny
ˈdʌni/
noun
- 1.SCOTTISHan underground passage or cellar, especially in a tenement.
- 2.AUSTRALIAN/NZinformala toilet.
knuckle ball
n. Baseball.
A slow, randomly fluttering pitch thrown by gripping the ball with the tips or nails of two or three fingers.
knuckleballer knuck'le·ball'er n.
lias
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌɪəs/
noun
Derivatives
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting blue lias): from Old French liais 'hard limestone', probably from lie (see lees)nocturnal
Pronunciation: /nɒkˈtəːn(ə)l/
adjective
Derivatives
nocturnally
adverb
adverb
Origin:
late 15th century: from late Latin nocturnalis, from Latin nocturnus 'of the night', from nox, noct- 'night'hoary
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːri/
adjective (hoarier, hoariest)
Derivatives
hoarily
adverb
adverb
hoariness
noun
slither
Pronunciation: /ˈslɪðə/verb
noun
Derivatives
slithery
adjective
adjective
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