Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank for princes of the Church and great officers of the realm was the Banco Bombelli a few days ago. Its chairman, bland, steady-eyed, imposing Commendatore Jorio, inspired Cardinals with confidence, competitors with fear. He was rumored to sit spider-high in the Fascist web of Star Chamber courts which sentence men to exile and rot on 77 Duce's penal islands. Last week the Banco Bombelli, small but among the oldest and most select in Rome, failed...
Where was Commendatore Jorio? Fascist police could not answer. So high had he sat in the spider web that he knew its every mesh, and was able to skitter out of Italy, even after the alarm was sounded, unchallenged by frontier guards. A thoroughgoing rascal, he had, it appeared, even cheated the Most Holy...
...serving as a clearing house between the numerous extra-University groups calling for student aid, and the numerous students who find tangible satisfaction in altruism or often in material training, Phillips Brooks House becomes an integral part of Harvard; and this activity is but a minute part of the web of organization interests. Freshman Week, the Loan Library, work in the Graduate Schools, the winter lecture course, allowe their continuation chiefly...
...gone like water like a web of delicate frost...
...When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...