Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader reaches the ground, the main stroke, more powerful than the leader, shoots upward to the cloud along the path created by the downward steps. In general the McEachron crew confirmed Schonland's findings, but they discovered that in some instances the leader stroke did not shoot downward from the cloud but upward from the building's top. They got pictures of branched lightning which forked upward...
...Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished is also interesting for the light it throws on obscure episodes and characters in Faulkner's other novels. Because the stories are told by Bayard Sartoris, they close one of the gaps in the chronicle of Sartoris' family who, along with the Compsons, the Sutpens, the Coldfields, and their slaves, overseers and illegitimate children, make up much of Jefferson's past and present population. The stories are full of action and there are few of the involved Proustian passages that made Absalom, Absalom! almost unreadable. Instead, its outdoor scenes of fights...
...Cantos, one by one, record Poet Pound's attempted circumnavigation of the world of space-time curved within the convolutions of his brain. The voyage proceeds along a course unexploited by earlier epic navigators. These poet-navigators attempted to carry their loads to their readers' understandings somewhat as Australian grain boats, knot by knot, carry wheat to Liverpool. Poet Pound's boating is more like a torpedo bug's: he scoots about his map every which way, and tries to be everywhere on it as simultaneously as possible...
...constitution creating a corporate state along fascist lines was recently adopted by (1 Argentina, 2 Brazil, 3 Chile, 4 Colombia, 5 Peru...
...trace the development of his art from his first decoration of a poem, that of Charles Stuart Pratt's "Daniel Gabriel Rossetti," up to the gigantic two-volume edition of the Oxford Lectern Bible which appeared in 1935. The use of different type faces characterize Rogers' fine editions and along with examples of his work, his reason for using the particular design is given. Among the varieties of type is found his own widely known Centaur...