Word: abysses
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...service to the entire world. The great fear which torments any democratic or socialist leader is that he might be ousted or succeeded by another leader more extremist than himself. It has been said that a continuous course toward the left, a kind of fatal ebullition toward the abyss are the characteristics of all revolutions. Italy has demonstrated that there is a way of dealing with subversive forces. She has found the necessary antidote against the Russian venom...
...insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows not how, lost in a world in which ignorance is no excuse for criminality. Destruction is swift cutting down even the most innocent; the entire group is brought to the abyss of ruin, into which Wassermann has formerly not disdained to hurl them...
...this juncture, when we seemed to be looking into the very abyss of death, we knelt down and with eyes toward heaven asked Divine mercy. It came. We were saved...
Into Yokosuku, Japan, steamed the Japanese warship Manshu last week, with arch-plotters aboard (see p. 18). They had been plotting for six months in the Pacific; had plotted the deepest spot yet discovered in the world's oceans, an abyss 9,435 metres (a little over 5 miles) deep between the Izu Peninsula, Japan, and the Bonin Islands. (Previous depth record: 8,500 metres [about 4% miles] off the Kurile Islands, plumbed by the U. S. S. Tuscarora...
...knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all the immensity of nature that one can conceive, within the bounds of this epitome of an atom. He may see an infinity of universes each with its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion...