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No License for Derek Wiscombe
Derek Wiscombe, in the town of Jarrow [England], has built up a delivery service with a horse and cart. But the horse has aged, as we all do. Derek, however, has saved up enough money to buy a lorry. Recently, he went before a Traffic Commissioner’s Tribunal to ask for a carrier’s license so that [...]
1Apr1958 | Diogenes | 0 comments | ContinuedWorld Invisible
Diogenes is the pseudonym for a regular contributor to the British weekly, Time & Tide, this article being from the issue of October 6, 1956. There are two kinds of truth. There is the truth about the world which is external to us, the world which we perceive through our senses, or our senses aided [...]
1Jan1957 | Diogenes | 0 comments | Continued-
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