Word: athwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looking in a dark cellar for a black cat which isn't there". The real success of the contest will rather be found in the mere fact of its existence. For, although Diogenes never found the honest man, he proved that one could earnestly seek him. Thus in throwing athwart the mists, the silhouette of a thinker, the "Forum" will, perhaps, have more success in broadcasting a thoughtful method of approach to argument, than in clarifying specific terms...
There is no racial or geographical obstacle to this contemplated union. Austrians, as German as Bavarian or Samons, are even more so than the Prussians who have been Germany's standard bearers in recent history. Austria itself was originally and outpost of the German empire, planted athwart the Danube to keep the Huns and Slavs from raiding the fat lands of Bavaria and Swabia. Well into modern times, until the rise of the Hobenzollerns and the Roformation together alienated the smaller German states from the Bapsburgs, Austrin was acknowledged the chief of the German states...
...communicated by so-called automatic writing, the average grownup hesitates, comments McFee. Yet if one knows, the road from Colchester to Mersea where the whole coast at high tide is compacted of lonely islands, "of a quiet loveliness in summer with salt winds driving thick white clouds athwart a sky of palest azure," he has come close to England...