Word: horned
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...with the most secretive business plan is Amazon boss Bezos, who launched his Seattle-based Blue Origin in 2000 and started buying up a huge swath of land in West Texas near Van Horn, arousing the suspicions of locals. Bezos plans to build a spaceport and aerospace testing center at the desert site but is taking it "slow and steady." (His company motto is Gradatim ferociter, which roughly translated means "Step by step, fiercely.") It's unclear how much funding Bezos, 43, is putting into the venture, but he has been doing it the NASA way, spending huge amounts...
...Lowell described the practice as “barren, poor, and meagre,” and “with less modulation, less means of expressing degrees and varieties of emotion of any kind than any other form of expression—with the possible exception of the fog-horn...
...last in a long line of imperial leaders,” as Gomes calls him, didn’t need a fog-horn to get his message across. Lowell’s vision spoke through his actions: concentrations, tutorials, honors, and the house system were all conceived by this man. Gomes believes that we still live in Lowell’s university. “It’s amazing how much of Lowell’s world is still here,” he adds...
...previously been accompanied by nothing more than a small hand bell, brought out several native instruments. Especially noteworthy were two types of trumpets. One was several feet long and reminiscent of an elephant’s bray in sound, while the other was a far smaller, higher-pitched thighbone horn...
...died in 1910, well before what we call “modernism” was much more than a premonition. This bold statement about James’ place in the history of ideas is not only a fairly obvious publisher’s appeal to horn-rimmed graduate students of comparative literature who wouldn’t dare touch a book dealing with hopelessly unemancipated “pre-modern” thought—it’s really not all that true. James was far more associated with late-Victorian schools of psychology and philosophy than those...