Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look at the Sun. Other specialists will watch the sun. During totality, the sun's glowing corona will show up in all its splendor, to be photographed many times in both black & white and in color. The scientists hope that they can work out the suspected relation between sunspots (now near a maximum) and changes in the corona...
With a sigh, Vag circled University Hall and beamed a troubled glance on Old Jawn. Well that was all right--he was still unbowed in his solitary splendor. At least we have our tradition, Vag thought, but now, Fair Harvard, when thy sons to thy jubilee throng, the masculine spirit of year will be somewhat diluted. Those mellow occasions when the alumni used to contemplate "the good times we had with Copey" would have a strange air about them now when they realized there were others (he straightened his tie) who shared the same memories. Was that fair? There would...
...reactionaries. What is needed, beyond this, is the kind of moral effort a biographer put into the mouth of St. Dominic. Whether Dominic actually said it or not, the words are a call to men everywhere who face the Communist threat. When papal legates (the story goes) came in splendor to help him fight the Albigensian heretics of southern France, St. Dominic entreated them thus...
...setting of the novel is Moscow under the deep snow and deeper temperatures of midwinter, a setting that Blunden etches in many black-&-white details. The crowded misery of the people, their toughness, the splendor of the theater, which Ferguson calls "the opium of the people," a wide scale of Moscow types from factory worker to Red Army marshal, are rendered with fidelity and perception. The book's unifying theme is fear-the fear in which all these people live...
While Allied authorities hunted him, Kusunose went to the foot of Fujiyama, to a deserted army barracks, where he had soldiered as a youth. He sat down facing the great mountain, which rose so steeply above him that he had to bend his head back to see the splendor of the sunlit, snowcapped summit. Kusunose sat down on Dec. 9. On Dec. 17 or 18, Death, which had been creeping nearer for nine days, sat down beside...