Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is something we call mysticism, which is a very real thing in life. Science makes us look closely at every aspect of our civilization and in studying out each separate problem, we find ourselves working on diverging lines, each logically and scientifically founded. Most of us can only look one way and see the lines diverging; the mystic is the man who can turn around and see the center. He finds himself and his work to be one; he has found the unity of life. The highest degree of mystic is he who can look at the centre...
Webster gives "raise" as a noun, with the meaning: "The act of raising or the thing raised...
...execution is performed in a short story entitled "Anna's Ham". It is complete and pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...
...paid him storage. A few, not realizing the colossal sense of humor of the Police Department, are still looking for them. Some of the more literal minded son's went so far as to ask the police to justify their joke. They should have caught the spirit of the thing and remembered that there is always a clause which can be stretched to cover any case. Of course their cars were abandoned...
...knows a thing...