Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italians love intrigue, stealth. In Rome last week currents and cross currents of intrigue wove a maze. One day it was Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, great ex-Papal Secretary of State, who had emerged from retirement to reconcile Vatican and Quirinal. Next day it was Marquese Francesco Pacelli, brother of the new Papal Secretary of State, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli. Next day it was two other Papal diplomats...
...Vagabond has, in the last few years; become particularly "architecture-conscious", (if he can use such an ill-sounding phrase). He has his reasons. From his lofty tower in Memorial Hall he looks down on one of the most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth century fire-escapes has long intrigued him. He would hate to have to use them in case of fire, but then, they provide a good roosting place for pigeons. Far to the southwest, with binocular to eye, the Vagabond can spot, on clear days, the small American flag which marks...
...done much to modernize both manufacturing and agriculture. They have adopted Western methods far more intensively and constructively than did Peter the Great some centuries ago. The stability of the government depends upon the stability of this industrial revolution. The Soviets have cloaked their actions behind such a maze of rumour and propaganda that it is impossible to tell the exact state of affairs. Until an accurate and authentic report of business and social conditions can be obtained no real predictions can be made. At present Stalin is the only man who knows how sound the government...
Sound tracks such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...
From the first premonition of a college career to the many wise saws and instances that aid him across the channel from secondary school, the Freshman is the victim of advice. Yet, the first few months of college mark only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into...