Word: domains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made us acquainted with his [the scorpion's] organic structure; but no observer . . . has thought of interviewing him, with any sort of persistence, on the subject of his private habits. Ripped up, after being steeped in spirits of wine, he is very well known; acting within the domain of his instincts, he is hardly known at all." That, in parvo, was Fabre's technique- "personal interviews" with his minute subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored beast, 3½ inches long, with bony armor...
...first writer gave us nothing but a little legal pedantry, such as gentlemen of his profession are accustomed to impose upon the long suffering subjects of this domain; and the second improved the farce of the thing by taking No. 1 seriously, and by explaining to him in the sweetest tones that it was not we who sang "Johnny Harvard" at the Harvard-Oxford debate, but a parcel of knaves who must not be counted among the members of our righteous Student Body. Whether we sang it or whether we did not sing it, the spirit of "Johnny Harvard...
...public domain" of the United States, which 50 years ago was 1,160,700,000 acres, is now 182,800,000 acres. Ten years from now it will have disappeared entirely, says the Department of the Interior...
...outside of politics, Winston Churchill gives full vent to his literary genius. His book,* except for some too technical pages, is one of the most outstanding of its kind written since the war. The style is straightforward, easy, Churchillian?a style, be it said, that in the domain of politics more than once caused no inconsiderable alarm among his colleagues. No one should miss this book who takes an interest in pre-war European " fireworks," who is interested in British political figures of the period, who is interested in British naval policy...
...pleasure's sake, in the best that men have written. A student of any literature will find it impossible to look at his subject narrowly; he will find that it concerns the history of man's best achievements in any age. He cannot hope to traverse all this vast domain, but he should not feel himself an outcast in any part of it. If he has the zeal of the explorer, he will niter with constant surprises, constant towards for his search...