Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of this organization designate themselves as Bible Students. Their creed holds that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. By careful scrutiny of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have discerned that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," prevail in human affairs. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II began with the Flood, ended with the World War. Cosmos III, begun in 1914, will end in 2874, when "The Kingdom of God" will fill the whole world. An erroneous prophecy that the year 1928 would provide a cataclysm- ''Nations will battle; the dead will...
This is the story, bounded by the four walls of the whistlers' room and the miniature cosmos of the hospital. The echoes of the war sound even there, but only faintly; this is a reflection of the tumult of the front, a single instrument against a symphony. Nothing vast, grandiose in the physical sense, enters the work. It is written with a fine, precise hand that understands how to use the individual as effectively as other writers on the war use the mass. Thoroughly unpretentious, still the book expresses its great thesis of friendship effectively, and in small compass...
...Cezanne ... is a type of frustration, a man who never fully mastered his craft and in consequence couldn't fully express what was struggling within his cosmos, but at least he had a groping toward the root of the matter...