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lle're are a few examples of sea words and phrases we borrow for use in everyday life. We speak of the destitute as "flotsam and jetsam”: to be in the dumps as "in the doldrums”: we refer to the time of man’s second youth as "Ilie roaring forties”; in a new job we have to "gel our sealegs.” uy everyone, of the salts and me oyster, i henelleial in Kdiicaliou costs, on an average, £l4 I is 8d for each child in British elementary sch«mls—and there are more Uiaa -4,000,000 ol tliem.
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19985, 8 September 1936, Page 3
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114Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19985, 8 September 1936, Page 3
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