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Novels of social realism such as Kipps (1905) and The History of Mr Polly (1910), which describe lower-middle-class English life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, [9]: 99 but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.
Foot was educated privately and at Somerville College, Oxford, 1939–1942, where she attained a first-class degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. Her association with Somerville, interrupted only by government service as an economist from 1942 to 1947, continued for the rest of her life.
"Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God and another to themselves. At some points the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God carried the protagonist.
Dinosaur footprints have been found over the past century, and in 2014, on the same beach near the newly found footprints, two brothers discovered a full skeleton of a dracoraptor.
The phrase is not commonly used in the 21st century. According to Geoffrey Nunberg, the image entered the English language in the middle of the 19th century. [1] An early example is a fable printed in 1858 in which an Arab miller allows a camel to stick its nose into his bedroom, then other parts of its body, until the camel is entirely inside and refuses to leave. [2]
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A Tennessee man was convicted in Fiji last week for killing his wife while they were honeymooning at a luxury resort on the island. Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, was found guilty by the High Court in ...
Lyft stock soared as much as 30% Thursday as the company’s turnaround plan pushed ridership to an all-time high.The ridesharing company posted a record 217 million rides for the quarter ended ...