Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schopenhauer is delightful about the first of January when mid-years and other pleasures serve to sins one into the manifold morbidities of mundane moroseness--and Schopenhauer. Comes spring--or rather comes the thought of spring, and Schopenhauer returns to his shelf while Robert Herrick's measures tread the mind, and day dreams take the place of nightmares. A silly soul, indeed, has phrased it thus...
...kills his horse driving back to Preobrashensk, and arrives with wolves harnessed to his sled. He meets a rebellious regiment and touches with his whip handle the men to be hanged by their com rades. Before the Cathedral of Saint Basil blood flows from his manifold executions. Other rebels are hanged and sent floating down the Don on rafts...
...season approaches when in accordance with a long established and respected custom, a day is set apart to give thanks to Almighty God for the manifold blessings which His gracious and benevolent providence has bestowed upon us as a nation and as individuals...
...Significance is manifold. The spectrum of radio-carrying ether vibrations is, like the light spectrum, definitely limited in extent. Commercial broadcasting in the U. S. has utilized all the higher wave lengths, which, to avoid interference between stations, must be spaced about eight metres apart. So loaded is the air that identical wavelengths have already had to be assigned to pairs of stations, the one remaining silent during the other's program. At U. S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover's radio conference, called for early next month, wave-congestion will be the principal problem discussed...
...News" touches on the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley group. Dickensians will relish "The Greatest Little Book in the World." But a particular interest is unnecessary for lively enjoyment of any of these papers; the wide knowledge they reflect is so unassuming, so humanized, so colored by the author's manifold personality...