Word: circa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know who designed my modern china (Cavitt-Shaw, circa 1940), but at the home ranch and cow-camp, we like these cups. They keep coffee hot, and the handles let men, as well as women, who know better but like to do it, "hook" their cups. The ample wife of one rancher has trouble with the dribble. I thought it due to ill-fitting dentures, but noticed last dehorning that she laps her lip far down the side, as a child does...
...name of Li Lisan is almost a legend. In the days when the Chinese Communist Party was breast-fed by Moscow (circa 1925), Li Lisan had been the party's No. 1 Marxist and tactical top dog. Then German Communist Heinz Neumann and Georgian Communist M. Lominadze, Comintern agents and personal pets of Stalin, decided to speed up the Chinese revolution by staging an insurrection in Canton (1927). Li Lisan opposed them...
...dzhaz, were inclined to think that Izvestia had something there. Eddy's band has a good hot fiddler, a talented pianist, and an uncertain beat. Its arrangements, based on 5-&-10? store sheet music of U.S. hits which reach the U.S.S.R., is either imitative of U.S. jazz circa 1930, or unrecognizable...
...Pressburger-United Artists), based in a rather freewheeling way on actual fact, tells how Eugene François Vidocq (George Sanders), a criminal almost too clever for his own good, became prefect of the Paris police and turned his youthful research to gainful account as the first great detective (circa...
...past because the assumptions behind them no longer square with scientific and hence philosophical truth. Indeed, they never did; Northrop says that the last system of thought that accounted coherently for all the facts of science known at the time was the Aristotelian system of St. Thomas Aquinas (circa...