Word: divinatione
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Men felt in their bones that the indecisive sparring on the Egyptian front had gone on long enough. They sensed, too, the fact that the war in North Africa had reached a curious and explosive stage, where each side had everything to lose, and nothing to gain, by waiting for...
Psephomancy, the antique Greek art of divination by plucking pebbles from a heap, is today a $2,500,000-a-year study of the U.S. oil industry. Its present name is micropaleontology, and its new methods were explained last week at the University of Chicago conference (see p. 63) by...
The Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots...
Then from Algiers came sailing toward Marseilles, last week, another Barbe Blue, with 18 women to his discredit. He was 60, and named Jerome Drat. Through some occult divination the Marseilles poor unequalled for viciousness in all France, decided that the two Barbe Bleus were the same man under different...
"Edward Stevens Sheldon, who died on October 16 of this year, devoted the greater part of his mature life to investigation of the sources of our English vocabulary, having change of that department in successive revision of Webster's Dictionary, now called the International. Into such study he carried that...