Word: snipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind, was cold. Therefore he stole from the beasts their striped or tawny elegance, he scooped the rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will...
There was only one child that he found really suitable for their purpose ?the Permanent Court of International Justice, nicknamed the "League Court." The manner of adoption which he proposed was very simple: to snip the cord which attached the Court to the League and strike the word League from the Court's surname...