Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience with the extent of his lore, and his experiences have been so diverse and so keenly felt that there is no need for literary dramatizing. It is enough to be nature's mirror. The first of these essays describes the first visit of man to the Three Arch Rocks off the coast of Oregon, a surf-guarded, craggy home of seals and sea-lions, of murres, puffins, petrels and other seafowl in clamorous clouds. There is a chapter on extinct and vanishing species: the sturgeon and condor; an oil field that yielded 2,000 sabre-tooth tigers; peregrine...
...Raymond Poincaré has been called the greatest of French militarists. There are those who have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...
Pontifically attired, the Arch-druid welcomed the Prince and Princess, received them formally into the Gorsedd, bestowed upon them the "bardic names" Albert O. Efrog and Betsi O. Efrog...
...whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven."* (MATTHEW XVI: 18, 19.) Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority of Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway...
...whom France owed her ability to resist the German hordes. At present the so-called "revisionist historians" are busy with piles of documents released from the secret archives of Austria-Hungary and Russia, on the basis of which M. Poincarè is charged with being the chief and successful arch-plotter of the World...