Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been at work on Italy and Ethiopia for a few days last week, the Holy Father Pius XI addressed 15,000 War veterans of 15 nations in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls thus: "It is with inexpressible joy that, if we have well understood, we seem to see on the black horizon a rainbow of peace which seems to diffuse its rays over the world. This is peace made of justice, charity, honor, dignity and respect for all rights. It is peace which announces happiness for everybody. Peace is the primary condition for all prosperity...
...stagnation, Earth does not appear to be growing any older. The forces which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted her crust seem to continue with unabated vigor. The planet trembles almost continuously, as some 8,000 earthquakes a year bear witness. Islands sink out of sight in the sea, and new ones emerge. Rain and wind level old mountains; young ones are thrust up on the shoulders of mysterious forces below. Whence comes all this energy...
...Northern, cracked and sundered, slid like cakes of ice over the hot sub-crustal pool to form the present continents. Evidence: the coastlines of Western Europe and Africa and those of Eastern, North and South America almost fit like jigsaw puzzle pieces; similar fossils on the two sides seem to be remains of life that once inhabited one undivided land. During this drift mountains may have been thrust up along lines of weakness in the crust...
...pleasant, but that "receiving the blows they do is painful and annoying to flesh and blood," he expressed an attitude toward pugilism that has been held by most of the writing men since his day. The 37 authors whose fragmentary observations are included in Boxing in Art and Literature seem as a rule to approach it with a strange air of mingled respect and disdain, as if striving to find some intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe in connection with every battle. Beginning with Homer and ending with Ernest Hemingway, Boxing in Art and Literature includes Hazlitt...
...title is misleading, for it is primarily an anthology of the great knockouts of literature. For straight graphic writing, Homer's account of Odysseus' one-punch victory over Irus, and of Epeios' equally effective slugging of Euryalos, make subsequent reports on fisticuffing seem cloudy and selfconscious. When Euryalos was hit, he leaped up "as when beneath the North Wind's ripple a fish leapeth" and was forthwith dragged from the ring with his legs trailing, spitting clotted blood, his head drooping awry...