tenant = 'tenor'; archive = 'to achieve'

[Jonathan Lighter]

I suppose "archive" might be interpreted as "to put on record." Like it
makes a difference in this case.

A mere slip?  Nowadays, who knows?  Keep watching the skies!

JL

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> From the _First World War Poetry Digital Archive_, an extensive collection
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> "The whole tenant of the article can be summed up as =91What the Germans
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> failed to achieve in 100 days at Verdun in comparison to what British had
> archived by the 8th October at The Somme=92. Consequently the article makes
> exaggerated claims for any success and downplays any failures."
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