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zwieback zwee-BAK noun a German sweet bread which is baked twice 1915The Turmoil Beginning at the beginning and learning from the ground up was a long course for Bibbs at the sanitarium, with milk and 'zwieback' as the basis of instruction; and the months were many and tiresome before he was considered near enough graduation to go for a walk leaning on a nurse and a cane. 1917Long Live the King Ferdinand William Otto was hungry. He ate eagerly - chicken, fruit compote, potato salad—again shades of the Court physicians, who fed him at night a balanced ration of milk, egg, and zwieback! 2001One Door Away from Heaven...Bobby said, 'The congressman is zwieback.' | He's what?' | 'Toast done twice.'Labels: Booth Tarkington, Dean Koontz, Mary Roberts Rinehart
tempora mutantur tem-po-ra moo-TAWN-tyoor phrase the times are changing 1869OverdaleHe was; but tempora mutantur, you know.1920A Poor Wise ManSome young whipper snapper who employed a handful of men had undertaken to show him where he, Anthony Cardew, was a clog in the wheel of progress. Not in so many words, but he had said: 'Tempora mutantur, Mr. Cardew. And the wise employer meets those changes half-way.Labels: Emma Jane Worboise, Mary Roberts Rinehart
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