Word: encompass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walking in the quiet hill-wood he meets a salamander, and this abrupt intrusion shatters the entity of stillness, and suddenly there is a alarming multiplication of yellow and black terrors. There is his constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle was as tiny as a chessman the tossing shapes of the Baroque Kollibien Kirche so frightening from his windows seemed quaint and harmless here." And there is his instinctive impulse to divide personalities from their physical appurtenances...
...crown was brought to him in a leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm, one-time Imperator...
Last year the need was strongly felt or vocal talent in order to give a more balanced program. With the permission of President Lowell and Dr. Davison, a vocal unit was established as a part of the Instrumental Clubs and a new constitution was drawn up to encompass the three units under a single organization...
Twelve volumes of 1,000,000 words are expected to encompass the matter of the new encyclopedia. Articles on controversial topics will be written "to record rather than to create opinion." The financing of the undertaking is under...