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            After the young reporter had been repeatedly admonished to cut his stories to the bare essentials, he decided that the editor really meant it; so the next item he turned in read like this:

            “J. Smith looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on its way down.  It was.  Age, forty-five.”


Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Jacob M. Braude, page 405

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