Word: contains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canals ran in a definitely ordered scheme, sometimes in pairs, connecting the old sea floors, that seemed to contain vegetation, with one another. At Flagstaff, the most favorably situated point of observation, these canals are seen clearly as fine, sharp lines. Elsewhere, they are blurred, diffuse, and fewer are visible...
Since then, Nebraska has won four Big Six championships. Coach Bible says that winning games gives him less satisfaction than it used to but losing them is more painful. At Nebraska, his football squads usually contain a plethora of oversized Nordic farm boys. Most Midwestern teams enjoy elaborate junkets lasting from two days to a week. Coach Bible's squads rarely play far from Lincoln, arrive only a few hours before the game. A large source of income to his colleagues of comparable distinction comes from newspaper writing. Coach Bible rejects offers of this kind on the ground that...
Problem One: No. 1 Ethiopian newspaperman is Emperor Haile Selassie, editor-in-chief of the country's only paper. Because he works 20 hours a day. Conquering Lion of Judah is almost inaccessible to the Press. Occasional handouts from his official press bureau, written in French, contain scant news. Last week, for their chief source of information, correspondents had to resort to private "pipe-lines." Only thus, through expensive bribes, could they track down the hundreds of rumors which flashed daily through the streets of Addis Ababa...
...book cases, built into the walls, contain some 2000 volumes dealing with Seandinavian, Flemish, Dutch, and German art, as well as many other volumes concerning culture of the Germanic countries. Among the treasures of the library is an illustrated first edition of Haus Sachs, entitled the "Wittenburg Nightingale." This is a Protestant poem which was published in 1523, written to be a veiled attack on Catholicism. There is also a volume of Albert Durer's writings which contains several of his famous wood-cuts...
...true and coherent story." Since it is remarkably frank even in this day of candid autobiography, and since Mabel Dodge Luhan seems to have known intimately most of the eminent figures of her time, from Arthur Brisbane to D. H. Lawrence, European Experiences suggests that the unpublished volumes must contain some hair-raising disclosures...