The Archive · 1926

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Freuinc hungry, the giant boa-constrictor in the' Hamburg Zoo found the end of his tail and began to swallow it, says a recent report. Finally he was choked in the process and was found dead lying in a circle: The snake symbol of eternity.

Byeny trade has its jargon of technical terms, extremely irritating to the non-technical reader, but until reading Mr. Martin S. Briggs on "ko Architect's Vocabulary" one does not realize that that great profession has a peculiarly appalling vocabulary of its own. Mr. Briggs complains not merely of elaborate technical terms, like "pseudo-dipteral octastyle," "bow. tell," "snecked rubble," and "haunched tenon," and so on, but also of the variations of such terms used in different parts of the cour try. "The architect's vocabulary, he concludes, "needs thoroughly! overhauling and. simplifying."

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