The little schoolhouse with its flagpole on top and its two doors in front, one for boys and the other for girls, stood on the crest of a hill, with rolling fields and meadows on one side, a stretch of pine woods on the other, and the river glinting and sparkling in the distance.
An ohmmeter is a device that measures the amount of electrical friction generated as electrons pass through an electrical conductor.
In 1877 a London newspaper quoted a âsharperâ, i.e., a criminal trickster, using a version of the expression with âhourâ instead of âminuteâ: âThere is a fool born every hour,â said one of these sharpers to an informant of Mr. Anderson, the member for Glasgow, âand, thank Heaven, the majority of them live!â.