Word: dying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler plebiscite." In return, on Dr. Adler's home grounds in Philadelphia, Rabbi Wise made a bitter personal attack on Dr. Adler, charging he had known in advance of Hitler's rise to power, had advocated a "do-nothing" policy in the belief that Naziism would die of itself...
Walter was the only person aboard the Yukoner who wholeheartedly enjoyed his trip. When the crew got out of jail in Dawson (the piracy case was allowed to die because of international complications), all members immediately went on a drunk, spent their year's wages. Because of complications arising from the bankruptcy, Walter was not paid. He did not mind...
Reason why planetaries are so shortlived: they are constantly and rapidly expanding, constantly dissipating. Some, thousands of light-years distant, grow and die so fast that before earthly astronomers see them, they have been dead and gone for centuries...
...touch the summit of their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian art and Egyptian writings, a little more dust is shined off the dynasties...
Compiled by Teachers Josephine Mayer and Tom Prideaux of Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, Never to Die owes its material to the labors of several generations of archeologists and translators, principally University of Chicago's late, great Professor James H. Breasted. Unique merit of the book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table...