Word: somes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variable Alphabet. It appears, however (by page 320) that after a satiety of bloodshed and moral corruption, "a colossal need arose for truth and justice, for reason and for some form of order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics...
Out of the monastic life of the Order came the Bead Game, a kind of synthesis of human learning, which, in its subtlety, resembled both the chess game of master players and the improvisation of great musicians. One player stated a theme, perhaps a thought of a great philosopher, or...
Toombs is an ex-newsman whose wife took ill and left him to care for their three children. If there is a word of truth in Raising a Riot, Toombs ran about like a chicken with its head off for 18 months-a spectacle that may weary some readers after...
. . . Hath September. In Des Moines, Policeman Harold Grossnickle learned why the twelve parking tickets he laboriously wrote out last month resulted in some confusion: he had ordered the violators to appear in court on Sept. 31.
Deficit Financing. In Dallas, caught redhanded trying to crack a safe, Delbert A. Bowers told the cops: "I'm going on trial tomorrow [for armed robbery] and I needed some money."