Word: magnus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been going on for two or three years under the direction of the Italian government. Leptis Magna is an ancient city of Africa situated a few miles inland on the coast of Tripoli. The city as it was in its glory, was largely the creation of the Emperor Septimius Magnus, who was born there and flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built it up with all the magnificence characteristic of the late Empire. In the sixth century when...
...woman's thighs were less strong than the corresponding ones of a man and that therefore a woman was less secure astride a horse-would be more safe while grasping the pommels of a sidesaddle. These muscles, as everyone should know, are the pectineus (comblike) and the adductores magnus, longus and brevis (the great, long and short pullers-in) and connect the femur (the thigh bone, the longest in the body) to the front lower ridges of the sacrum. They adduct the thighs powerfully and are especially used in horse exercise, the saddle being grasped between the knees...
...rotor cylinders, the lieutenants used but one, believing they thus avoided a detrimental interaction; where the base and top disc of the Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle was the same as Flettner's, however: the Magnus principle, that wind passing over any surface creates suction on that surface, greatest on any part of the surface that does not move with the wind. Thus, the forward surface of a rotorship's cylinder being made to move into the wind - i. e., clockwise into a starboard wind, counterclockwise...
...consideration was that Mr. Stone was confirmed as an Associate Justice, 71 to 6. The only Senators who voted against him were Heflin and Trammel (Democrats), Norris and Frazier (Insurgent Republicans), Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Laborites). Senators Wheeler and Walsh, both of Montana, asked to be excused from voting. With the exception of Messrs. Norris and Frazier (and Senator LaFollette, now in Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively...
...Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator, defeated for reelection in Minnesota last November prepared to contest the election of his victorious opponent Thomas D. Schall, now a Representative from Minnesota. It was understood that the chief accusation was to be that Mr. Schall, who is blind, was supported by a slush fund of $80,000 raised by bootleggers...