Word: crescentic
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This time, however, as Congress meets, it is turning dawn in international relations. Crescent light reveals Locarno, reveals the League of Nations, vigorous if not triumphant, and the World Court, formidably attractive. To be sure, the new light has not yet gilded politics, nor has the personnel of Congress yet admitted any degree of conversion to a new conception. But the crescent dawn reveals a surge, a wave, a recrudescence, of international vision and, it may be, of altruism. Certainly there is health in hope...
Quoth emotional observers: "Many a dark night has passed since the great Osman, looking into a pool of blood, saw a star and the crescent moon there reflected and bethought him of a design for the Turkish flag...
...Needless to say, the authority for this legend is nebulous. Another version has it that a white standard upon which the hero Osman fell was stained with his blood into the famed device. His scimiter, on which he lay, produced the crescent; similarly a diadem, crushed beneath him, prevented the blood from staining a white star-shaped patch...
...Although one swallow does not make a summer, one tophus makes gout and one crescent malaria...
...Lydecker graduated from Syracuse in 1922, after playing for four years on the lacrosse team. In his last year, when he was captain, the Syracuse team made a tour of England, winning most of its games. He has since played with the Crescent Athletic Club and last fall came to the University as coach. His influence on lacrosse has been such as to attract the interest of the whole University to a sport which has heretofore received little or no attention...