Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus. If lack of the food to which the upper bowel is accustomed continues for more than a very few hours, those species of bacteria normally resident in the colon and cecum ascend into the ileum and jejunum and there proliferate giving rise to huge amounts of gas and to symptoms of toxemia from absorption...
...precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination. For it is known to the Vagabond and those who have followed his trails that without imagination the richest course is bare; with it the dullest facts ascend those clouds of interest...
...would hold as he cherishes his youth. Though the heart, the Vagabond has been told, doesn't wrinkle, still well he knows it becomes poor. For in youth all things are of the same importance; nothing escapes our attention; and dreams are more precious than facts. But as we ascend the steps of formal education we act with design; busy ourselves with particulars; and carefully exchange the pure gold of the imagination for the paper currency of book definitions. And thus, as the philosophers suggest, win in the breadth of life what we unwisely lose in depth...
This is a very melancholy occasion. The Campus wears an air of desolation. The robins on the green have suspended their animation and are belatedly scurrying from the deluge. Mournful ejaculations of "well-a-day" and "alack" ascend from the midnight cloister. Even the "A" men are trembling in their boots. It is all rather...
...have worried. The ostensibly legislative chamber of the Moscow Soviet clearly reveals itself to any practiced architect for what it is. Unlike the U. S. Congress or the French Chamber of Deputies, the room is not constructed with aisles so arranged that any member may leave his seat, ascend the tribune and manifest himself. Instead, Moscow Soviet Delegates sit in pews. Their pew seats have arms which fold up to admit them, then snap down into place. They are not locked in, but might as well be. For an individual Delegate like Perfect Gentleman Robert Robinson to manifest himself...