Word: glow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not be scaled: came across great balls of writhing snakes in the ditches in winter: met with streams which are eternally frozen, rocks like petrified caravans of camels, horsemen and carts; and over all saw the barren mountains whose folds looked like the mantle of Setan, which the glow of the evening sun drenched with blood". This is Mongolia the Mongolia whose ancestors broke their chests against the iron lances of the Western knights: the Mongolia which has only recently been stirred again by Baron Ungern, the "Incarnated God of War": the Mongolia whose books and priests and legends...
...Olympiad was awarded to Antwerp, taking the place of Berlin, and the games were such a pronounced success. France bent every effort to secure the next award. She felt that she deserved it, as she deserved many other things in that epoch of the war's after-glow. The international committee gave the games to Paris and everything was serene. France sat back contents and did nothing more about...
...services of an accomplished expert, Mr. F. W. Miller of Providence. Mr. Miller has spent nearly two years of painstaking study and experiment on this work. And the result of it has been that even to the eye of the trained observer our collection has all the freshness and glow no less than the timeworn hue of original monuments of antiquity...
...things a hundred times over; yet who can keep silent?" What the people of England felt in 1763, the whole world reflects today as it reads the provisions of the Disarmament treaty--at last an accomplished fact. At no time since the signing of the Armistice has such a glow of untrammeled satisfaction pervaded the hearts of thinking men and women. At no time has the prospect of future peace seemed so bright as today when the ten-year naval holiday has begun. It is not often that the headlines carry such a real and lasting thrill. As Dr. McGilroy...
...finds himself talking into thin air, he has but to throw a switch, and behold! the New Lecture Hall or Emerson D has become a grassy hillside; the seats are moss-covered rocks and the aisles, sparkling trout streams. As for the lecturer himself, he has taken on the glow of eternal youth. If this palls, another switch will change the hall into a grey and gloomy cavern, lined with stalactites and stalagmites; and so on--endless changes, endless variation. Thus can we put our old wine in new bottles, and completely deceive the luckless undergraduate with a couple...