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Mind evolves. Date of these cave paintings is about 30,000 B.C.-the Paleolithic or Early Stone Age. It was a glacial epoch: the last continental ice sheet, retreating from northern Germany and Britain, still covered Scandinavia. The Alpine and Pyrenean glaciers shouldered far out into the adjoining plains; all Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo...
Alec had written several novels, and one of them had sold as many as 15,000 copies. To get away from U. S. crassness -and expense-he had taken himself, his wife and their two sons to a Pyrenean village in the south of France. When royalty checks stopped coming, and Kate was pregnant once again, and credit at the butcher's and baker's grew narrower, Alec's creative flow dried up to nearly nothing. As household chores became major problems, his and Kate's intercourse became a continuous quarrel. At last he threw...
...Chicago. Old Paulino Uzcudun, once a Pyrenean woodchopper and now a chopping block for young ambitious heavyweights, showed his gold front teeth at King Levinsky, onetime Chicago fish-peddler whose manager is his sister, Mrs. ("Leaping") Lena Levy. As usual, when he is fighting someone with a punch, Uzcudun tucked his chin against his chest, allowed Levinsky to pound the top of his Neanderthal skull. After ten rounds of these tactics, one of the judges voted to call it a draw. The other judge and Referee, Phil Collins, overruled him because Levinsky, though comically inaccurate, had been energetic enough, particularly...
...indisputable decision for Schmeling pleased nearly everyone except a lot of Uzcudun's wood-chopping countrymen who went down from their Pyrenean villages to Biarritz and bet their savings that he would...
...understood that the new line would be inaugurated by a handshake across the Franco-Italian frontier between President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. That would have been no more than appropriate-for unquestionably this de luxe Riviera route is of greater social importance than the trans-Pyrenean freight line recently opened by the King of Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation handclasp across the frontier. Therefore...