Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the Star's gravitational pull on the cloud became less than the Sun's. By that time the particles of the gases-hydrogen, oxygen, helium, iron, etc.-had acquired a gravity of their own. The Sun could not pull them back into its own churning self. Nor could the particles keep shooting away from the Sun. Their gravitational forces and the Sun's gravity balanced themselves; the particles perforce began whirling around the Sun in orbits...
...supposedly polite dinner party, a Mrs. Keith turns savagely upon her female guests, stating that one of them is her husband's mistress. Someone, it is true, has been making amorous advances through the shrubbery about the house; but, with a sudden burst of self-sacrificial solemnity, Mr. Keith's heir falsely insists that the figures seen en route to furtive passions were those of himself and one of the suspected women's housemaids. This precipitates a semi-tragic interruption of the endearments which had hitherto been passing between the Keith scion and a nice young girl...
Under the rules existant at that time players and coaches were permitted to walk along the side lines. Haughton had given Kennard a warning signal and Kennard moved along the side lines, always keeping the Harvard center in a direct line between him- self and the center of the Yale goal...
...with Red Hair. As everyone who read Hugh Walpole's book knows, A Man with Red Hair concerns a self-immolating masochist whose philosophy is that pain gives power to the pained, makes the sufferer like unto God. Mr. Crispin learned the philosophy from his father who had tortured him as a boy. At Westminster he was different. His flamboyant red hair, pudgy hands and a distorted face which bespoke a grotesque mind, made him different through life. A man of wealth, he indulged his idiosyncratic taste for cruelty and his incongruous love of good etchings. He liked...
...charge or the likelihood of fraud. But the successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double-faced English lord in the pay of the court, a neurotic, lustful woman, a self-righteous bully of a pedagogue-suffered tortures of childish bafflement at the heartless stupidity of his elders. Treacherous death was actually release...