Word: labyrinth
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...Like Theseus entering the Labyrinth, with no string to guide him out save Assistant Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, President Coolidge plunged into the temporary offices where the War Department is carrying on the work of preparing to pay the soldiers' bonus. In and out through corridors of files, with a dozen typewriters clicking in his ears at every turn, a battalion of adding machines belching forth figures from every cranny and 2,700 acolytes, spread over eleven acres of floor space, putting 20,000 requests through the ritual every day, the President wandered, and emerged with a smile?...
...boldly, with a free mind, into the hinterland of historical fact. He has set out, adventurously, on a voyage of intellectual discovery, ready to acknowledge whatever conclusions his reason may bring him to. Without disparaging the Bishop's sincerity, it must, however, be said, that in all the labyrinth of his argument he seems to be clutching fast to a little thread which always brings him safely back to Anglican Orthodoxy...
...nothing out of discussion groups on religion. They usually get lost in a labyrinth of confusion about mere dogmas. I have no interest in dogmas. My only religion is my own experience "Faith is substance." Religion is substance." Religion is certainty. Heaven...
...Lost in a labyrinth of gentle limbs...
...such a manner does Professor Wise avow his intentions of lighting the tortuous labyrinth of dramatic production for the lowly Torchbearer. The book, haphazardly and inappropriately illustrated, is divided into twelve chapters which deal with practically every phase of amateur production, and includes in addition a general directory containing information about available plays for amateur presentation, with bibliographies of the authors--and further still a list of costuming houses in the Middle West...