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Duncan Spaeth, Princeton professor

I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark.

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[brain trust] {n.} A group of specially trained, highly intelligent experts in a given field. * /Albert Einstein gathered a brain trust around himself at the Princeton Institute of Advanced […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[in trust] {adv.} or {adj. phr.} In safe care for another. * /The money was held by the hank in trust for the widow./ * /At his death Mr. Brown […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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