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Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.
Lewis hints at secret annoyance with Bond from the first mention, in which he writes that Julian was "like most of the Atlanta members, more upper crust than those of us from Nashville."
Evidence of ancient flood water (which might now be frozen at the poles or beneath the planet's surface) and signs of repeated melting and crystallization of the planet's crust indicate that Mars is much more like Earth than was previously thought.
Richard W. Noone predicts that on May 5, 2000, the planet's crust will shift and oceans will be frothed into "maelstroms of death"; Meade Ministries warns that the "world will soon be engulfed in a sticky white substance"; and the High Priestess of Morningland preaches that Christ will land a UFO "the size of Texas" in Long Beach, California.
While Pompeii was incinerated by volcanic cinders, a minimum of 20 m (65 ft) of ash and mud swamped Herculaneum, hardening and covering the houses in a protective crust that kept upper stories and even some of the woodwork intact.
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