Word: ascendent
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...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...
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...
...forgotten the proud words of the great Hungarian legitimist leader. Count Albert Apponyi: 'The King of Hungary cannot crawl like a thief over the fence in order to ascend the throne of his ancestors...
...conditions of impending war (though Manchurian difficulties and the coming of winter may postpone the argument for a while), the introduction of a substantial trade between America and the Soviet Maritime Provinces might contain irritating implications if Japanese invasion caused it to be broken off. The howl which would ascend to the starry skies of our Western states, ably supported by the Yellow Peril agitators of California and elsewhere, might put even a moderately sane Washington government temporarily out of its head. Such things have occurred before. CASTOR...