Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...philosophy 1889 Professor of psychology 1890 Publication of Principles of Psychology 1897 Publication of Will to Believe and Other Essays 1897 Professor of philosophy 1898 Injury to heart 1899-01 Convalescence in Europe 1901-02 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh 1902 Publication of Varieties of Religious Experience 1905 Trip to Mediterranean 1906 Acting Professor at Stanford University 1907 Publication of Pragmatism 1907 Final resignation from Harvard 1908-09 Hibbert Lectures at Oxford 1909 Publication of A Pluralistic Universe, Meaning of Truth 1910 In Europe 1910 Died, Chocorua, N.H., August...
...Standard, the $57.5-million plant will process 3,600,000 tons of crude a year-but its significance goes beyond these impressive figures. The new plant will draw its crude from a new and vital petroleum artery: the Rhone River Valley pipeline, which provides the first link from the Mediterranean into oil-hungry south-central Europe and helps to meet the commercial threat of the Russian pipe network now reaching toward the West through the Iron Curtain countries...
...like Byron, thinks Elwin, the temptation to pile extravagance on extravagance must have been almost irresistible once he found an audience that responded to his frequent, mysterious allusions to "atrocious crimes" and "abominable secrets" in his past. Annabella apparently believed that Byron had committed murder while traveling in the Mediterranean, and solemnly noted that during his brandy bouts he ranted wildly of his conquests ("In 1813 he had absolute criminal Connections with an old Lady at the same time as with her Daughter-in-Law") while brandishing the dagger or the two pistols he habitually kept by his bedside...
...title only suggests the pretentious heights toward which de Grazia's essay rambles. The author's outlook, according to the jacket, "is Mediterranean in the classic style" (i.e., his book is larded with references to the Greeks). But his style is anything but classic. Consider the following...
...Axis pact got off to a bad start because Hitler never let Mussolini know what he was up to. When he invaded Poland in 1939 without advance warning, the Duce was shaken. He was happy to have German support for his conquests in the Mediterranean, but he did not want to be dragged into a major European war. When Hitler invaded Russia, again without consulting Mussolini, many Fascists began to have second thoughts about the Axis pact. Among them was Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, who upbraided the German ambassador to Italy...