Word: uprightness
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...poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...
Studying his old Chinese thighbones, Dr. Weidenreich decided that they belonged to a female who walked completely upright and was about 5 ft. tall. The males must therefore have been about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, so Sinanthropus was no pygmy. One of the thighbones was burnt -a grisly clue to Peking man's eating habits. "All the Sinanthropus bones," wrote Dr. Weidenreich, "recovered from Locality 1 of Choukoutien had received the same treatment as the game which Sinanthropus hunted. This hominid, therefore, was a cannibal...
Inviting his own assassination, Daredevil No. 1 deliberately chose to enter Vienna standing upright in an open car which first traversed the Jewish and radical labor quarters. Any resident in one of these dingy blocks of flats could with certainty have shot the burly Feldmarschall who rode along beaming, waving his gold-starred baton at Viennese who, whatever their private opinions, screamed at the tops of their voices: "Hermann! Hermann! Our Hermann...
...mixture, for one thing, shows that the European situation is little different from what it was before the First World War. England and France are still inseparable; England will not stand by and watch Germany make her a secondary power, and France, if Blum can keep her government upright, will fight to prevent Nazi enticement. Suspicious of his rival and unwilling, for the sake of his prestige, to be made the lesser of two evils, Mussolini can extend his arm only toward England. Thus, it is E. I. E. against Germany-Austria...
...motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees a flash he pounces. While the Piano Master requires a specially built piano, a modification, the Key Master, may be fitted to any old family upright. The Key Master flashes lights in a dummy keyboard above the keys. So highly does Chicago's Story & Clark Piano Co. regard the Piano Master that they have already manufactured twelve flashlight pianos...