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MIS PC Tech

Anonymous Tell us about your work---what do you do? I'm a PC Technician for the Chick-fil-A, Inc. home office staff. I work on a team of about five…

Storming the Beach: Tiger Dominates U.S. Open

A recap of Tiger Woods' victory at the 100th U.S. Open by Mike Morrison Tiger Woods' won his first U.S. Open with a record 15-stroke victory. (Source/AP) Related Links U.S. Open Turns 100Tiger…

Brewer's: Cat-lap

Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap. “A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Come That

as, Can you come that? I can't come that. Here, “come” means to arrive at, to accomplish. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Come the Religious DodgeCome Short…

Brewer's: Red Republicans

Those extreme republicans of France who scruple not to dye their hands in blood in order to accomplish their political object. They used to wear a red cap. (See Carmagnole.) Source:…

Brewer's: Beauclerc

[good scholar ]. Applied to Henry I., who had clerk-like accomplishments, very rare in the times in which he lived (1068, 1100-1135). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Brewer's: Aspasia

a courtesan. She was the most celebrated of the Greek Hetæræ, to whom Pericles attached himself. On the death of Pericles she lived with Lysicles, a cattle-dealer. The Hetæræ of Athens…