Word: meridian
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...Goodbye, Graves was able to settle down on five stony acres in the Spanish island of Majorca. Except when driven home by war, Graves has lived there ever since, enjoying the "best &weather in Europe " and "the only sea, the Mediterranean," without abandoning the Greenwich meridian (which passes through London but misses Majorca by about 130 miles). "Those who stay out of England develop a much better sense of the English language," says Graves, but I could never live far off from the Greenwich meridian...
...Meridian Books (Noonday Press), only a month old and already past the 80,000 mark for such titles as Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry by Jacques Maritain and Force and Freedom by Jacob Burckhardt...
Almost everywhere in the U.S., water is delivered free with every rain, but not west of the 100th meridian, where the Great Plains begin. Westward of the line, rainfall rates drop from 100 inches a year to 20 or 10 or even less. Old maps labeled the area: "The Great American Desert (Uninhabitable)." But in irrigated areas the Great American Desert is blooming like a rose. Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers built the West's first modern irrigation project in 1847. Now, more than 25 million once-arid acres of the Western states produce an incredible profusion...
...turning the big projector around its horizontal axis, the lecturer can light up the sky with the stars of any latitude. Traveling along a meridian from pole to pole, he can take his audience to the Arctic, or south to see Canopus and the Magellanic Clouds...
...Unlike Korea's 38th parallel, which ran approximately eastwest, the Potsdam line dividing Germany snakes unevenly from north to south roughly along the line of the eleventh meridian east of Greenwich, until it reaches Bavaria, where West German territory bulges eastward to the Czech border...