Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this great ship, bearing no outward sign of wreck or misfortune, so abruptly abandoned? Why were these temples, palaces and astronomical observatories of cunningly carved white limestone suddenly left to the bats, the lizards and the sinister little owls the later Indians called "moan birds" and associated with death? It is conceivable that any rice might forget its humble beginnings in the dawn of history. But how came legend to be so silent about the collapse of a cultivated nation whose greatest cities we can now prove were inhabited in the first six centuries of the Christian era?. One reiterates...
...Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment she is not a striking figure but rather detached, casual to the outward expressions of existence, calmly occupied with the deliberate achievement of perfection. She says she had accumulated sufficient material for a lifetime of writing by the age of 20, but that would not include years spent in the Southwest on archaeological expeditions, fruit of which is the aesthetic piece de resistance...
Meantime, King Alfonso had been filling his engagements with marked unconcern. The only outward sign that he gave concerning the dastardly attempt to assassinate him was to take enough time off from his scheduled duties to view the monster bomb that had first been found...
Indianapolis, Indiana, June 9.--So far as outward manifestations go, in buildings, in institutions, in devotion of the material resources of communities to its purposes, and in its hold upon popular faith and the popular imagination, organized education has the place in American society of today which organized religion had in the society of the Middle Ages. . . . Nothing commanded the devoted support of all conditions of men as did the religious foundations of the time. The extent to which accumulated wealth was put aside to set up and maintain religious foundations in the Middle Ages is unique until the great...
...Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...