Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very simply Klim mentioned the hitherto unknown fact that Admiral Vladimir Orlov, who recently "disappeared" from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, and Admiral A. K. Sivkov, who "disappeared" from command of the Baltic Fleet, "have been wiped off the face of the earth as fascist bandits, traitors and spies...
...green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas of more easily filled straights...
...groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours, and Dr. Jung believes that the unconscious mind therefore tends to augment it with a fourth element. This is probably woman-the anima, or earth mother; although Dr. Jung points out that the element of evil, or the devil, is also excluded from the God-symbol, in which it might logically take part. At this point Dr. Jung excuses himself, declaring: "The church, I assume, has to invalidate any attempt at taking such results seriously...
...disinterested in it. They would not, nor did not, even so much as lease the building for a further length of time. . . . We have aplenty, aplenty of buildings. . . . We have accommodation for many thousands of individuals out of this city, and many buildings in this city. At least the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof...
...cast as a native symbolic of all the natives, incredibly strong and brave, free as a bird and incapable of understanding restraint. His arrest, for striking a white, and his brutal captivity are climaxed by a superhuman escape, and on top of this comes "the wind that overturns the earth." To sit through it is an ordeal, fearful and thrilling...