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Brewer's: Piping Hot

Hot as water which pipes or sings. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Pippa PassesPiper's News A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…

Brewer's: Pipelet

A concierge or French door-porter; so called from a character in Eugène Sue's Mysteris of pans of Paris. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PiperPipeclay A B…

Private Planes: Learjet 23

Brainchild of a tinkerer by David Noland Learjet 23 Specs Length: 43 ft, 3 in. Wingspan: 35 ft, 8 in. Empty weight: 6550 lbs Max takeoff…

Robert Cray

Sweet Potato PieMercury As a recording artist, Robert Cray has never fit any mold or mindset. Instead, he's gone where he's wanted to, with little or no regard for what's hip or correct in…

Dividing Fractions

If your friend has half a pie, how many quarter-pies are in that half? Or, to put this into mathematical notation:1/2 ÷ 1/4 = ? To get the answer, flip the divisor (the second fraction) over…

commercial law

(Encyclopedia) commercial law, the laws that govern business transactions, except those relating to the maritime transportation of goods (see maritime law). Commercial law developed as a distinct…

Pattypans

Pattypans"What's the matter, Daisy?" "The boys won't let me play with them." "Why not?" "They say girls can't play football." "They can, for I've done it!" and Mrs. Bhaer laughed at the…

Brewer's: Cheese

Tusser says that a cheese, to be perfect, should not be like (1) Gehazi, i.e. dead white, like a leper; (2) not like Lot's wife, all salt; (3) not like Argus, full of eyes; (4) not like…

Multiplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers

Multiplying Fractions If your friend has one-quarter of a pie, and she gives you half, how much of the pie do you have? Or, to put it another way, what's half of one-quarter? Or, to put it…

Harvest Time

Harvest TimeFor a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved, met occasionally, and wrote such voluminous letters that the rise in the price of paper was accounted for,…