Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Minister Stresemann, in a speech in Berlin, said: "We are the sick limb of the European body politic." He mentioned a long list of indignities from which Germany had been forced to suffer and stated that Germany had never recognized and would never recognize the legality of the Ruhr occupation...
...When Einstein propounded his theory in 1905 he said that it must withstand three tests, the second of which concerned the recent expedition. It is that any star near the limb of the sun (edge of disc) should be displaced away from the sun's disc by 1.75 seconds of are on account of the influence of the magnetic or gravitational field of the sun on the star's light which must pass near the sun in order to reach the earth. According to Newtonian physics this displacement should amount to but 87 seconds...
...tavern-keeper and a little something besides, conceives a publicity coup. He officially denies the presence of hidden treasure about the place. The result is that the tavern is crammed with doubloon-seekers in no time at all. The whole building and grounds surrounding it are torn limb from limb by industrious axes, hammers...
...same time we are sure that a man who is so fond of reading as Senator Borah, will not forget the experience of that other investigator, Little Red Riding Hood. We do not think that the Soviet Government would eat the senator limb by limb, but we should be much surprised if it did not pull his leg. Lenin and Tchitcher are able and subtle men versed in all the arts of public and private diplomacy...
...readers of the volume that anyone who thinks that "Puerile Mountings" really describes the work needs the attention of a competent English A Instructor. There might also be added a who's who in America and Mr. Enderhy could look up Dorian Abbot His statement about the publishers Limb" is not of the first order, and the point concerning the selection of the poets is sophistry of the same class. A careful reading of the introduction, and the letter of Mr.Wheel Wright's which excited Mr. Enderby's efforts, will make the case quite clear to everyone. Almost any sort...