Word: terra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plasters should be applied delicately to the pit of the stomach. Wrote impish Mr. McAndrew: "Closer than a brother will this preserver of composure cling, even through your daily baths, until, at last, on terra firma once more, there comes the quick sharp pang of parting...
...archaeology. In the Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple of the eighth century come many Sanskrit and Tokharian manuscripts, and also figures carved in wood, including the oldest woodblock extant, cut before 800 A. D., for printing an image...
...been said that of all the writers of today Booth Tarkington and George Kelly, each in his clinical little way, are the most daring investigators into that terra incognita the feminine heart. But while the best women of the older writer are young things, the best women of George Kelly are unmarried (even Craig's wife was not mentally married) and are yet at that fascinating turn in the road known as la femme de trente ans. Tony, heroine of "Behold, the Bridegroom", is twenty-seven, and the jacket calls her "a burnt candle...
...Mesa, Ariz., on land reclaimed from the desert by Mormons, is a huge terra cotta temple. Its foundations are 12 feet thick, its walls 4 feet thick; its area 184 by 128 feet. Within is a massive baptismal font of bronze and tile, resting on the backs twelve life-size oxen made of fired clay, altars and great rooms decorated with paintings, gold and marble...
Pater noster, qui es in caelis: sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen...