Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definite series of displays. To make sure that the spectator follows the correct order, Frederick Pleasants, who directed the construction of the room, placed show cases, and the large boards on which-the exhibits are arranged, in various positions around the room, and sent students wandering through the maze...
Economics. Cross Creek economics, the exchange of goods and services, is primitive but enormously complicated. One debt got Author Rawlings "in so labyrinthine a maze" that she never expected to get out. She thinks it was punishment for shooting Mr. Martin's pig. The pig was a pretty, "titian-haired" barrow, "light of spirit and rounded into delicious curves by his long diet of [Mrs. Rawlings'] biddy-mash, skimmed milk and petunias." One morning angry Author Rawlings "stepped to the petunia bed and shot him dead where he fed." Too late she discovered that the pig belonged...
...entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting of party journalists, The Voice of Fighting Russia is a sort of mirror maze in which truth and half-truth interreflect...
...universal knowledge, with which only someone of Levin's stature could cope, enable him to sum up within himself all the threads of his literary past, and his genius succeeded in spinning a web for the future, though the reader may be led astray along the way by the maze, and the spinner himself may become over absorbed in the pattern...
...Rocky Mountain resort of Colorado Springs. Priceless masterpieces from famous museums all over the U.S. were arriving at his back door by the truckload. Spouting South Dakota cuss words at a crew of workmen, Director Parker carefully unloaded the valuable arrivals, stored them away in a basement maze of gigantic vertical steel racks. By last week the number of arrivals, including top-flight Cézannes, Daumiers, Goyas and Van Dycks, had reached 59, topped an aggregate value...