... relatives. 5. The working day of an engineer One of my friends, Dmity Shevelev, lives in Vladivostok now though he was born in Nakhodka. Some years ago he graduated from the one of our institutions and became an engineer. Now he lives near his office. He usually walks there. He works on weekdays. I can’t say that he work hard, but all his mates like him because he is a good mixer or, as you may say, he is very communicable person. He doesn’t work on Saturday or Sunday. His working day usually ...

... five hundred ears or so has been given out by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday to as many men and woman as there are years in his or her age. Once it was clothing which was given out, now it is a sum of money; on odd — numbered years the ceremony usually takes place at Westminster Abbey, in even — numbered ones at a church or cathedral elsewhere in the country — though 1989 seems to have been an exception, for the distribution took place at Birmingham Cathedral in honor of the centenary ...