Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
...tobacco mosaic virus, a "giant" protein molecule eleven-millionths of an inch long...
...TIME, May 7, 1934); The Culture of Cities, the growth of the modern "megalopolis" (TIME, April 18, 1938). Like the first two volumes, The Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence of an Old Testament prophet, sometimes with the horse sense of a veterinarian...
...hours later dark news was brought to Hitler: Colonel General Hans Valentin Hube had died in an air accident. Last week at the Mosaic Hall of the Chancellery, Hitler, Göring, smaller Nazi fry met to mourn the 32nd Nazi general officer lost in World...
...found only in the trees of revolution." The Archbishop of York is possibly the most peculiar social revolutionist the world has ever known. It is doubtful whether he thinks of himself as a social revolutionist at all (though, like Cardinal Manning, he might have called himself a "Mosaic Radical...