Behind every small business, there&#39;s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn&#39;t come out of nowhere.

Yet it has 58 uses as a noun, 126 as a verb, and 10 as a participial adjective. Its meanings are so various and scattered that it takes the OED 60,000 words—the length of a short novel—to discuss them all. A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Written By Carl Sandburg

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