Word: fragmentism
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...talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a fragment of the conversation slipped between the horns of the traffic jam. The officer and not the merchant was the questioner...
...period of 5¼ hr. If this was the period of its rotation, the variation might have been due to one side being much darker than the other -or to the end-over-end spinning of an, object which was not spheroid like big planets but an irregular, elongated fragment...
...announced that "equality is the fundamental principle of justice," and construed this noble sentiment to mean that the clauses of the Treaty of St. Germain and of the Treaty of Trianon which limit Austria to an army of 30,000 and Hungary to 35,000 have now joined the fragment of the Treaty of Versailles which once limited Germany to an army...
Another trophy was a fragment of a marble sign, probably from the Library of Trajan, which bore this warning: "No book shall be taken out. We have sworn it! The library will be open from the first hour until the sixth...
Last year a London dentist and archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found a primitive skull fragment in the gravel at Swanscombe, Kent. Few months later a bigger piece, the left parietal bone, was discovered. In his latest report to Nature Dr. Marston stated that his skull is more primitive in a number of points-including a lower and more sloping vault, "flat ruggedness and non-filled out contours"-than the skull of the Piltdown man, and therefore that the Swanscombe man should be assigned his rightful place as England's oldest oldster...