Word: anew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there are records which go back far beyond history's short memory, "pious abbreviations" of real events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced that formation of coulisses which forever lures and leads onwards the traveller in time." Such a group of sagas is contained...
...gave the keys ceremoniously to French officials. In his good Yankee accent, he declared: ''The Trophy of the Alps represents . . . the magnificent and generous ideal of an ancient civilization . . . and the Pax Romana, which gave three centuries of world peace and prosperity. May they be spread anew among...
Most unfortunate of all, the apparent passage of the Critic will render any new attempt in this field increasingly difficult, since the past subscribers of that magazine would naturally be loath to risk their money on anew venture, and possible backing for another Fourth Publication could scarcely the expected to consider the precedent an suspicious omen for their hopes...
...Anew system of justice--or injustice depending on the point of view, has been set up by the Roosevelt Administration...
...might have lent respectability to the gathering, were kept away, and the crowd was left without a program of any sort. Finally, after the rally had nearly exhausted itself in a good deal of running about the streets, a squad of Cambridge policemen did their best to provoke trouble anew by interfering with the proud captors of the Jayvee goal posts...