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Mr. See owned a saw, and Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now, See's saw
sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See that made
Soar sore. Had Soar seen See's saw before See sawed Soar's seesaw, See's
saw would not have sawed Soars' seesaw. So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was a shame to see Soar so sore because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
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ASCII, which means American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a
7-bit coding format for character data.
An OXFORD Dictionary definition --
TYPIST [ti-pist] n. a person who types -especially one employed to do so.
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Cuddly cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.
Six selfish shellfish saved scallops.
The skunk sat on a stump and thunk that the stump stunk.
But the stump thunk the skunk stunk so the skunk skittered.
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Pete's pa, Pete, poked to the pea patch to pick a
peck of pea for the poor pink
pig in the pine hole pig pen.
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In point of fact, and in the absence of references - which
the orator delivers with thrasonical bombast and psittaceous
vacuity - he might have said simply, "I assure you, history
will go on one way or another."  Advanced thinking inescapably
leads some to promulgate esoteric cogitations with platitudinous
ponderosity. A few learn to avoid such flatulent garrulity.  Still,
the authors work was interesting and immeasurably entertaining.
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Your specification is dated April 12th [4/12]. But Section 47-{3}, para. 5
will be replaced; Section 56-{1} is OK.
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For fine fresh fish phone Phil. But at Phil's Fish Facility,
I never smelled a smelt that smelled as
bad as that smelt smelled.
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Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie
manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
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BASIC's RND instruction (for RaNDom),
produces a decimal fraction somewhere between 0 and 1; for example - .173514.
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If I had some ham, I could have some ham and eggs, if I had some eggs.
Barbara burned the brown bread badly.
Buy only a little brown cape, for he
who buys only a little brown cape pays only for a little brown cape.
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A Communications 'protocol' is a procedure that sending and
receiving computers follow to accurately transmit data over the
communications link. The PC's protocol is Asynchronous Communication.
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Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad
bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons - balancing them badly.
Seventy shuddering sailors standing silent as short, sharp, shattering
shocks shake their splendid ship.
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BASIC is one of the standard programming languages for the PC.
Other programming languages available include FORTRAN, COBOL, and the
acclaimed 'C'-Language, which this program, PC-FASTYPE, is written in.
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Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott
than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot
shot Shott, then Shott was shot, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot
shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! is it not?
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You must have an account on the system (or equivalent) into
which you wish to log in. The preferred interface is xcomm.
The cu interface is included for those user's attached to
the "call UNIX" command of SYSTEM V. This manual page
describes only xcomm's interface to T-I-P.
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In baseball, a SHOE-STRING catch is made when a fielder bends
very low to snare a ball on the fly before it touches the ground.
Usually shoe-string catches are made on line drives hit to the outfield.
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SCCS is a computer language source code management
system which maintains records
of changes made in files within that system. Records stating
what the changes were, why and when they were made, and
who made them are kept for each version. Previous versions
can be recovered, and different versions can be maintained
simultaneously. SCCS also insures that two people are not
editing the same file at the same time.
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The traditional SCCS commands are also included for reference
in the "SEE ALSO" section. If the sccs(1) preprocessor is used,
small discrepancies may exist due to conflicts between the
command parameters and the sccs(1) preprocessor parameters.
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The VI text editor is the standard UNIX text editor. If the file
argument is given, VI simulates an 'ED' command on
the named file; that is to say, the file is read into VI's
buffer so that it can be edited. The optional dash (-) suppresses
the printing of character counts by the E, R, and W commands, of
diagnostics from E and Q commands, and of the ! prompt after
a "!SHELL" command.
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The '-p' option of the "ED" line editor command allows the user to specify
a prompt string. The ED line editor operates on a copy of
the file it is editing; changes made to the copy have no
effect on the file until a W (write) command is given. The
copy of the text being edited resides in a temporary file
called the buffer. There is only one buffer.
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The LOGIN command is used when a user initially signs on to
a remote computer system, or it may be used at any time to
change from one user to another. The latter case is the one
summarized above and described here. To sign on initially,
see the Guide to System Environment Setup.
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The mkdir command creates specified directories in mode 777.
The directories are then modified by umask(2), according to
how you have set up umask. Standard entries, '.', for the
directory itself, and '..' for its parent, are made automatically.
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Since 1961, the longest word in the unabridged Merriam-Webster Third New
International Dictionary has been:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-
coniosis
It consists of 45 letters and is a made-up word
describing a lung disease caused by breathing volcanic or other fine dust.
The coiner was one F. Scully, in a 1936 book titled "Bedside Manna."
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The major league's single-game attendance record was set on April
18,1958 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles when a total of 78,672 fans
came to watch their team play the San Francisco Giants in the game
which set the single-game major league attendance record.
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Rod Carew's amazing .388 batting average in 1977 made him the
American League's leading hitter.  He played for the Minnesota
Twins at the time.
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The award given annually to the best pitcher in the major leagues
is the Cy Young Award, named after Denton T. "Cyclone" Young,
one of baseball's all time great pitchers who chalked up more
winning seasons than any other pitcher in the history of baseball.
From 1956, when the Award was established, until 1966, the Cy
Young Award was given to the best pitcher in all of baseball.  But
from 1967 on, two Cy Young Awards have been given: one to the best
pitcher in the National League and one to the top pitcher in the
American League.
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The first game of TEAM baseball, as we know it, was played at
Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The game
was between the Knickerbockers and the New York Nine.  The
Knickerbockers lost the game by the score of 23 to 1, in four innings.
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Most people believe that Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball
in 1839, but stick-and-ball games date as far back in history
as the ancient Egyptians.  Researchers have also shown that
similar games were played in England and America before that date.
The English game of "rounders" was played in Great Britain in the
1600's and in the New England colonies in the 1700's. To play rounders,
a ball was hit with a bat, and the runner ran around posts in the
ground, which were used as bases.  Fielded balls were then thrown at
the runners to get them out. So although Doubleday is credited with
inventing baseball, there is no actual proof that he did.
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Just how long is a second of time? If you know about fractions, you
can figure out how long a second is. A second is 1/60 of a minute,
which is 1/60 of an hour, which is 1/24 of a day. So a second is
1/86,400 of a day.
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Acceleration - The rate of change of velocity with time,
just as velocity is the rate of change of distance with time.
Gravity - The force of gravity pulls all objects toward the
Earth and also, very slightly, toward each other.
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Parallel forces - When two parallel forces act in opposite
directions on an object, they produce a "twisting" force.
Turbine - Name given to a special kind of engine in which
rapidly moving fluid is deflected by blades mounted on a shaft.
The blades are at an angle so that they act as inclined planes
to the oncoming fluid. Deflection of the fluid in one direction
by the blades produces reaction forces in the opposite direction on
the blades, which then turn the shaft.
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Lightning is static electricity caused by a buildup of electrons
on clouds. Clouds become negatively charged owing to the friction
between water droplets and ice crystals tossed around in a
thundercloud. The Earth becomes positively charged. Eventually a
stream of electrons moves from the cloud towards the Earth in
the form of lightning.
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a PRISM is a regular block of glass - especially a triangular
prism, which is able to split white light up into its colors.
A prism with two sides at right-angles acts as a mirror. Such
prisms are used in binoculars and periscopes.
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The world's prevailing winds and the rainfall they bring with
them result in many areas of the world sharing similar climatic
features. For example, there is a belt of thick tropical forest
around the equator, and in roughly similar positions in the
Northern and Southern hemispheres, deserts are found. Local
features such as the presence of a range of mountains, or the
closeness to the sea, modify the overall climatic pattern.
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Earth's tilt causes the seasons. When the North Pole slants
toward the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere has summer. Although
Earth is then farthest from the Sun, the sunlight is less
slanted and lasts longer. Winter comes to the hemisphere
when the North Pole tilts away from the Sun.
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Winners in the ancient Greek Olympics received "chaplets" -
head garlands of olive leaves, and laurel and palm wreaths.
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Willie Shoemaker, horseracing's 98-pound, 4' 11" top jockey,
holds the record for the most lifetime wins.  From April, 1949,
to the end of 1977, Shoemaker has ridden 7,331 winners.
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The great horseracing jockey Eddie Acaro rode 4,779 horses
to victory, including five Kentucky Derby winners and two
Triple Crown champions.
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The world's largest swimming pool is the salt water Orthlieb
Pool in Casablanca, Morocco.  It is 1,547 feet long and 246
feet wide, and covers an area of 8.9 acres.
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You may have heard about Diogenes, a wise man of ancient Greece.
On one occasion he walked down the streets of his home town
at mid-day carrying a lighted lantern. When he was asked to account
for such a strange conduct, he said that he was out just
looking for an honest man.
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Money's the best gift! It's easy to exchange. The love of money
is a love which never grows old. Money is what you use if you
have no credit cards. The trouble with money is that it favors
the rich. Money talks, but it does so only with the very few.
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Be a better typist--follow these simple suggestions: First, the correct
technique at your PC: sit erect as tall as you can, feet flat on the
floor, eyes fixed on this screen (or on your copy - don't look
at the keyboard). Tap all keys lightly, but with a firm up and down
travel. Press the enter key - or carriage return key quickly, keep
your eyes on the screen.
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When a student gets that first job upon graduation, he or she
finds that the boss is much more exact in a host of matters than were
those patient and kind teachers all liked so much at the school.
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No type of job you have is worth while if you do the work lazily until
quitting time. If you are eager to make good in business or
any other field, get into the type of work in which you can put in
full time and exert your best efforts for success.
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Obit. Presley, Elvis (1935-1977). U.S. pop singer, pre-eminent
in rock n'roll from 1953 to 1963, and still "The King" when he
died. His music fused blues with country and folk, he had an
assured vocal technique, and his records sold over 28 million.
The first white artist to reproduce the wildness of black music,
he was condemned by the Establishment for his outrageous delivery
and pelvic gyrations.
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A redundancy is the needless repetition of ideas and is one of the
principal obstacles to writing clear, precise prose. Here are some
obvious redundancies:
old antique; blend together; a fellow colleague; the courthouse building;
endorse a check on the back; explode violently; basic fundamental;
free gift; past history; knots per hour; large in size; merge together;
continue to persist; original prototype; completely unanimous.
These are held in a file in The Department of Redundancy Department.
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All typing beginners make errors. And you're no exception. So please
don't get the feeling that you are clumsy with your hands any time
you strike one key for another. Just shrug off those errors you make
and keep going. Typing is a skill that takes time and much practice
to learn to type by touch.