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Word: cumu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor key in the story, and would better be read in its proper sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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