Word: eighteenth
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...artifact, discovered missing Monday afternoon, is listed as a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century piece from the Ch'ing dynasty. It is six inches high by seven inches wide and has translucent sides of mottled bright green jade. Carved dragons and lions decorate the sides and cover of the container...
...truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know, and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect...
...able to handle the various singing styles and characterizations, but the costume changes at times overwhelm him. Right: The Cilbert and Sullivan Players continue their production of "Princess Ida" this weekend at Agassiz. Below: Voltaire's comedy "Candide" goes up tonight at the Loeb Mainstage. especially the eighteenth-century wigs. Sometimes, he admits, it's "hard to figure out where I left my head...
Yesterday's was the first disappointment in the Intercosmos space program, in which the Soviet Union trains Eastern Bloc cosmonauts. It dampened in the Soviet Union yesterday's celebrations of the eighteenth anniversary of the first manned space flight--that of a Russian...
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Halian Organ works--Luigi Tagliavini, Appleton chapel...