Word: apexes
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...have never gotten beyond Greek drama. I have played in modern plays and Shakespearian plays and Greek plays, and I consider that the Greek drama is at the summit, the very apex of dramatic...
...such work. But now (for the first time in American aviation) a dirigible has been made fast to a mooring mast. With Captain Frank R. McCrary and Captain Anton Heinen, the German engineer-pilot, in charge, the Shenandoah, her nose about 200 feet above the ground, glided towards the apex of a huge mooring mast which stands some 1,500 feet west of the Lakehurst hangar. As the dirigible approached the mast, it dropped a steel cable. A ground crew of three officers and 15 men seized the cable and fastened it to another cable attached to the mast...
...often hailed as the era of internationalism and more perfect accord between nations, should be marked by a recrudescence of high tariffs and protectionism which are the very antithesis of association. The present agitation for protection in England is merely part of a general movement which reached its apex in the Fordney Tariff...
...Berlin I found to be the worst city in Europe. Somehow, it was worse than Paris, which had always seemed the apex of wickedness. But the French manage to make vice artistic, while with the Germans it is gross. London-well, London is ponderous and heavy, but it is on the way to ruin. It is avoirdupois, not virtue, that holds London back...
...developed by a historical accident through the medium of oil, pigment and canvas, to which it bears no essential relation. The true, traditional painting is pictorial draughtsmanship. Its tools are line and mass, black, white and gray. Its function is decoration in public and private buildings. It reached its apex in Rubens (1577-1640), and since then no fundamental advances have been made - merely improvements in method, conquests of technical problems, emotionally impotent. To the great masters of the Renaissance, says Wright, color was incidental-laid on after the design was structurally complete. Their works are as intelligible in black...