Word: adventism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was something lacking to the occasion which left an uneasy longing in the complicated structure which passed for anatomy with the Vagabond. It was only with the advent of major-general Apted and the boys that he realized what had been missing. The evening's performance was immediately elevated from the petty and amateur to the dignity of proportions of a professional riot...
...Geneva. He returned to establish watchmaking in Le Locle. One of his apprentices was a youth named Pellaton. Long after Blacksmith Jeanrichard was dead, Pellatons made watches, saw them grow smaller & smaller, finer & finer. The present Pellaton, Georges, who moved from Le Locle to Geneva, has seen the advent of wristwatches, electric clocks, self-winding watches. Last week he made his own contribution to the new science of watchmaking...
When James Branch Cabell published The Way of Echen, thereby putting his "final and finishing touch to the Biography of the life of Manuel," Cabellians every-where assumed that their author had wrapped his singing robes over his head and retired till kingdom come. Pending that happy advent, however, the creator of Poictesme must find means to ease his very restless head. To combine retirement with activity he now speaks his mind through a ventriloqual figure. Branch Cabell, sheared of his Christian name, is in all other respects his spit and image...
...Germany right now; the whole industrial and commercial system is practically paralyzed, and there is a population half that of the United States in an area three-quarters that of Texas, with no expansion possible. Naturally, with conditions such as these, there is a considerable danger of the advent of communism, but Adolf Hitler is the one man best able to prevent...
...little volume entitled "Eminent Victorians" swept over England. Theretofore the Victorian age had been a sad business full of inhibitions and morality, the study for psychologists and professors of literature, the butt of disillusioned liberalism. But with the advent of this book into the world the dying years of the Nineteenth Century became an intensely human period peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater...