Word: arc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days in the year is deducible from the dimensions of an inner chamber. One of the interior galleries is oriented toward the pole star. The pyramidal cubit (635.66 millimeters) is exactly one ten-millionth of the earth's polar radius. Cheops is oriented to within five minutes of arc to modern latitude and longitude. Its meridian divides the Delta of the Nile and the habitable continents into two equal parts...
...guard is back, according to Mr. Hull, in the stronghold of the Republican Party. Said he: " Conditions have changed for the worse since Taft's time. In fact, they arc five-fold worse than they were then. This is the group that does the financing of the Republican Party. If Roosevelt were alive, no doubt he would be after it hammer and tongs, and denouncing its members for the political porch-climbers and second-story men that they...
...Arc Valley near Chambery it is reported that the glaciers have receded several meters...
...short time ago a statue of Joan of Arc was dedicated at Winchester Cathedral, England, and now it stands side by side with Saxon kings and with such figures as those of Jane Austen and of Isaak Walton. The sainted savior of France has been placed in an English Church, with minor figures of English literature and history. But, although at first this act might seem incongruous, it is merely a single manifestation of what Carlyle has called "hero-worship". For the memory of the great belongs not to one nation solely, but to all humanity...
...program of the regular "Pops" concert this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall in Boston follows: 1. "Entrance of the Gladiators" Fucik 2. Overture to "Jeanne d'Arc" Verdi 3. Waltz, "Tres Jolie" Waldteufel 4. Fantasia, "Romeo and Juliet" Gounod 5. Prelude to "The Mastersingers" Wagner 6. Flute Solo, "Woodland Stream," (Arthur Brooke) Wetzger 7. Waltz, "Souvenir" Krogmann 8. Finale, Fourth Symphony Tachaikovsky 9. Overture to "Mignon" Thomas 10. Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach 11. March "King Cotton" Sousa