Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have neither the intention nor the desire to raise or have raised with me subjects having to do with the war. They are entirely outside the sphere of my work...
...high his white head, as he chatted with Sir Hubert Wilkins. His talk was still of exploring. Said he, holding his fingers to his temples: "Most of all we have got to explore this area here-that lies back of the eyes and between the ears. When that cranial sphere is fully explored men will have no reason to fight wars...
...been bandied about with such utter freedom and carelessness, that the intelligent individual, having a normal interest in modern art, has often been forced to throw up his hands in despair and mutter something about "artificial catchwords". Well, it is true enough that any categorizing term used in the sphere of the aesthetic is nothing more than a valiant attempt to oversimplify; it is also true, though, that certain descriptive terms do have precise meanings; and without a knowledge of these meanings, however slight, an understanding of modern and contemporary art becomes extremely difficult...
...Polish territory occupied by Russia, elections were announced last week to take place Oct. 22 for deputies to a national convention. This was expected to vote confirmation of the seizing of Polish estates and their division among the peasants. According to Soviet newspapers, Polish peasants in the sphere occupied by Russia have now been supplied with adequate tobacco, matches and salt, previously were so poverty-stricken that they had been smoking dried cherry leaves...
...theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...