Word: jove
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...Jove himself comes barging in his stride. --Jacobus Amundus...
...this point the command again rings in memory: "Get wisdom, but with all thy getting, get understanding." In the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth, the area of man's knowledge vastly increased. Jove's lightning, once more mysterious than the sun-spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged...
15th. Lay pleasantly till 8, watching the snow "as Jove," methought, "descending from his Tower" come softly down. Thence up to draw the window but staid looking and caught a few perfect snowflakes on my gown. And Lord! How beautiful they be, Nothing in nature is unbeautiful even unto to the flake. See here a form of a star-which comes from a low cloud, I am told;-see here a tabular form-from high cloud;-see here little gems which man with all his wit could never make as beautiful. I am glad at my heart this...
...know. "Why," said I, as solemnly as possible, and with the Government mail wagons in mind, "the streets seem to be simply filled with the delivery wagons of this 'George V. Rex.'" After perceptible seconds came shrill laughter, pitying glances and, in rising tones (this verbatim): "Bah Jove . . . hah-hah . . . you know . . . hah-hah . . he means George the Fifth, King of England...
...delay in striking the blow, nullification of the mandates of Communist Reichstag Deputies and then, on the first provocation, to seize all the Communist leaders, each of whom had committed enough crimes to be hung three times!" Folding his great arms and brooding for a moment like a brown Jove, General Göring exclaimed, "I regret exceedingly that certain Communist leaders have been saved from the gallows through such premature forcing of my hand. ... So surprised was I when I heard the Reichstag was burning that I thought faulty electric wiring must have started some small fire...