Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consists of 78 syllables, and 169 letters (in Greek). It is denned in Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (edition 1863) as "the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, and fowl." What a way to spell hash...
...Education," said Dr. Hopkins, "does not deal with disembodied minds but with men of flesh and blood, possessed in varying degrees of mental capacities, of obscure neuroses, of emotional sensitiveness, and of spiritual aspiration. The influence of educational foundations, such as are our colleges and universities, should be in behalf of that wholeness of man which is healthfulness and which is holiness...
...many of us armaments are the world's lists of figures, tables, and charts, written and printed on sheets of paper. You did not theorize in an office or experimental station. . . . You fought the war in trenches. It was your flesh and blood that the shells lacerated and smashed. It was your lungs the poison penetrated...
...last August and stamped upon him until he died were last week pardoned, set free. Dispatches also passed the censor in which Jews were described as being commonly beaten by Nazis with an instrument consisting of a steel spring tipped by a small lead ball. The effect: maximum flesh bruises without actually breaking a bone...
...hour I wandered over the badlands, reading the story of life and death in the desert. Sixty million years ago, when these red sediments were being deposited, the drama was the same but with different actors. Then rhinoceroses trod this ground, the gigantic Andrewsarchus, greatest of all known flesh-eating land mammals, prowled at night, and fed upon the bodies of dying titanotheres. It was a world of nightmare creatures. The high plateaus of Africa today with their open plains and sparse forests offer a convincing parallel to ancient Mongolia...