Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue are a good many other curious spellings, but they come from much too careless proof reading...
...read and superbly illustrated,* German-born, Nazi-banned Dr. Margarete Bieber (now of Columbia University) has told in full the story of the Greek and Roman theatre-its drama, stagecraft, architecture, acting. Besides treating of obscure and controversial points chiefly interesting to archeologists, her book resurrects many a curious and picturesque fact...
...fish has very archaic gill flaps and lower jaw, big bony scales covered with enamel, lobed and limb-like fins, a curious double tail divided by a spinal projection. It is a typical member of the Coelacanths, a primitive fish family which first appeared 300,000,000 years ago when the only land animals were amphibians, and which was widespread and flourishing when the Age of Reptiles was just getting under way. The family has been considered extinct for 50,000,000 years because that is the most recent date assigned to any Coelacanth fossil found in the rocks. Thus...
...curious reporter has ever had a peek at the Grand Council's list but best Rome gossip says Mussolini's successor is likely to be Signor Balbo, Governor of Libya...
...small, dingy Paris room, where dregs of a stormy sunset filtered through the window, a young physician named Antoine Thibault found three people: a doctor, younger and more inexperienced than himself, a curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow...