Word: apex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weather bureaus, Stetson admits, can make little practical use out of sunspot cycle data, since they only suggest trends and nothing more. Furthermore, it is is impossible to tell where the effect will be felt. Last winter the apex of sunspot activity was received in Europe, and this winter a shift to the North American Continent has occurred...
This tremendously active and democratic religious cooperative is ruled by an autocratic hierarchy: a Council of Twelve Apostles, two counselors in presidency and, at its apex, the president, George Albert Smith...
...story is lasciviously simple, especially for those with an eye for triangles and the more intricate geometrics d'amour so deftly contrived by the remorseless Noel. At the apex is the immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less...
Most Americans, unfamiliar with Chinese geography, found China's war completely baffling. Its ultimate strategy hinged on control of China's arterial railroads. Like a huge capital A, these trunk lines run from Peiping (at the northern apex of the A) southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar across the A was the Lunghai Railroad which meandered from Sian, in China's far west, to Laoyao, a minor port on the coast. For Nationalists and Communists alike, control of this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold...
...independent India: "Every village has to be self-sustained and capable of managing its affairs, even to the extent of defending itself against the whole world. . . . In this structure, composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever widening, never ascending circles. Life will not be a pyramid with an apex sustained by the bottom but an oceanic circle whose center will be individually always ready to perish for the village, the latter ready to perish for the circle of villages, till at last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals. . . . In this there is no room for machines . . . that...