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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...
...Lido Venice, St. Moritz, Palm Beach, Epsom Downs, Paris, West-bury, New Haven and Princeton. "Men who know and care about what to wear," reads the legend underneath, "gather at these places for business, pleasure, or social activities" Cambridge, to the sartorial lexicographer of Hart. Schaffner and Marx, is terra incognita, a wild land whence explorers bring back tales of wild and unkempt savages, untailored philistines...
...Athens, Greece, 300 years B. C., a woman suffered as did Mr. Phillips. Ancient doctors could not cure her. So she had a five-inch image of herself, with all her grotesque deformities, made in terra cotta to show the gods what had become of her and to supplicate their pity. In 1914 the figure was dug up at Athens...
...wash of triangular humans and complexed realism that floods the fiction table in our book store really palatable swashbuckling yarns of blood and thunder stand out like welcome terra firma to a man in an open boat. For in the shifting sea of truth and actuality where floats the usual novel of today, the convincing tale of the impossible is a delectable and long sought isle where the casual reader may forget for a time that life is after all a rather nasty combination of prohibitions and inhibitions...
...split propeller had frustrated three attempted return flights. Wilkins advised Major Lanphier, his second-in-command, to bide at Fairbanks for good weather before going to join him in their big biplane, the Detroiter. The Barrow base was nearly complete for flights over the Arctic Sea to terra incognita...