Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the scanty reports that escaped through the mesh of the Spanish censorship, the war between the Moorish rebels under Abd-el-Krim and the Spanish forces under Director Primo Rivera appeared to be going from bad to worse for the latter...
Some volumes, having attained patriarchal age, may not impossibly be granted a dignified privacy in the chill seclusion of a Vault or behind a wire mesh, but they suffer correspondingly in that they are thus completely cut off from the reading world. After all, a book must necessarily cherish a yearning to perform its function of imparting its con tents. There is little satisfaction in social position per se if no one bothers to find out how it was attained...