Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble stairway which winds around a long chandelier chain goes up to the Keats Memorial Room, and to a long corridor occupied by collections of Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, and other modern authors. In the other direction, the stairs wind down to the Department of Graphic Arts, the seminar room, and the administrative offices...
...what China's greatest statesmen have always sought-a vast natural buffer zone between her own centers of population and the vigorous pressure of the outland. Beneath Sinkiang's sands and mountains lie raw mineral resources which may match even Chinese optimism. The Russians have plotted a chain of oil deposits stretching almost a thousand miles, from the Pamirs to north of the Tien Shan (mountains...
While the Alcan is officially "The Alaska Highway," it carries only war traffic. It was built, not for the vacation trade, but to service and supply the chain of airports strung along the air route which it follows...
When he left his applauding auditors of the University Club and moved over to his fixed position on the tenth floor of the nearby Biltmore, the invasion was on. At 10:30 the press was called in. For an hour, as photographers' flash bulbs flared, he answered questions, chain-smoking, gesturing and wriggling in familiar campaign fashion. The most important news for California: 1) that he was going to have breakfast with Governor Warren at the executive mansion in Sacramento; 2) that he was studying the California Presidential primary...
...distracting "suburbs." One of his objections to the Boer War was Britain's destruction of a small nation of small farmers. Where Shaw wanted state socialism (which Chesterton and his friends denounced as "the Servile State"*), Chesterton wanted Distributism (the division of land into small holdings, and of chain stores into thousands of small shops). He hoped for a "League of Little People." He shuddered at talk of an expanding universe-"more and more infinite corridors of space lit by ghastly suns and empty of all that was divine." To him the beauty of the cosmos...