Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expensive piece-meal movement of a greatly improved Boyden station from Peru to the climatically far superior terrain in the high veldt of Orange Free State, South Africa. Here six telescopes are in constant use, systematically photographing the Southern skies...
...practiced law and from law went into politics. With his military connections he thus had three careers, and he moved from one to another, like a good general exploiting the terrain to further his advance...
...opposed to the general concept of a snail's life and locomotion . . . I have found that the snail is in actuality a fast-moving animal in relation to his sphere and the relativity of distances. . . . Considering the great heights to which he can lay his track, the rough terrain over which he can glide, the obstacles which he tackles and surmounts . . . . the tenacity of purpose in achieving his goal, and a total lack of the all-too-human traits of indirection and lassitude-the snail is to be considered among the higher of the living animals...
With Mrs. Truman at his side, the President drove a Secret Service convertible coupe along the park's winding roads. Wearing a Panama hat and carrying binoculars, he studied the terrain from Big Round Top and a knoll overlooking the field across which Pickett's Virginians had made their charge. Said Artilleryman Truman: Pickett's men might have broken through with one more push. Then the son of Missouri Confederates added: We may all thank God that they didn't. That would have been the end of the Union...
Remembering how the movies botched The Human Comedy, even though it "gave the movies a very rich terrain to work in," he is meeting filmland feelers about his new book with un-Saroyanesque silence. Says he: "My hunch is that it's nearly a great book. That is something you hate to say, but that's my feeling...