Word: circum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continent finally succumbed to the pull toward the Pacific. It broke into huge fragments, the Americas, Eurasia-Africa. Australasia, and Antarctica. The last, Antarctica, seems not to have moved much horizontally. The others slowly slid, with haltings and renewed sliding, toward the Pacific. The great mountain arcs of the Circum-Pacific-Zone were born and slowly gained in strength as the continental fragments slipped down over the earth's body. During the process of folding along the border of the invaded Pacific, basaltic floods were pouring out through the tension-cracks of the continental interior. The fissures, through which...
Book I of Britain's history contains a short chapter on " an outline of British History to 1914"; the remainder is devoted to a study of the War and of conditions in the circum-bellum periods...
...France from his visit to the United States, he went to pay a call on the aged statesman. The two veterans argued heatedly about the reparations question, with the result that de Freycinet's physician gave orders that no more visitors were to be admitted and under no circum stances could M. Clemenceau call again...
From the great human Bible poem, questionably dramatic, though mightily poetic, Stuart Walker has fashioned a stageable dialogue, shaped it into ordered climaxes, and presented it in a visible form of the greatest beauty. A dual prologue sets forth the circum- stances. Job himself, on his ash-heap, discloses the tortures of his body and mind, and listens to the pronouncements of his miserable comforters. Eilhu comes at last with youthful words of sympathy; the Voice of the Whirlwind makes known its will, and the Epilogue relates of Job's reward. That is all; no action, only dialogue in long...