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...ever. But this is a plain case of high water. One can almost see why it happened. At least one can see why it happened where it did. Even those who hold the crudest ideas of divine justice can scarcely conceive it as operating only up to a certain contour line of elevation. It seems so natural for water to run down hill and to seek its level that those who look for manifestations of the power of God only in the wholly inexplicable are hesitant to include this cataclysmic but rather natural event in the category of 'acts...
...hurricane of wind swept everything before it. ... Through the jet black night only the majestic contour of vast Alagoz, the volcanic mountain with its dome of eternal snow standing out like a beacon on the broad Leninakan Plain, could be perceived...
...less circulated magazine* than that for which Author Connell writes, lines of fiery poetry are often encountered, drooping through their allotted space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely...
...Ministry of Education of introducing the Roman alphabet, which is the one we use in writing English, instead of the modified Greek character in which Russian has always been written. Psychologists claim that the Roman small letters, with their projections above and below the line, present a contour more readily grasped by the eye than the 'solid blocks of Russian lower case characters. Thus MAJILHHK which
...Gordon, Coaches Farrell, O'Connell, and Mikkola, Manager J. K. Collins '25, Assistant Manager E. W. Marshall '26, and the rubber, boarded the train for New York, where they are staying at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Yesterday afternoon runners and coaches walked over the Van Cortland course, which in general contour is very similar to the Charles River course...