Word: wheelings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contemporaries on other continents. While the Alpine mountaineer and his people were foraging for berries and perhaps herding sheep or cattle, the Sumerians in what is now Iraq were already living in cities, drinking beer, keeping time with a primitive clock and transporting goods with their new invention: the wheel. Furthermore, they could record these deeds in the world's first written language. Along the Lower Nile, Egyptians were beginning to construct monumental buildings and decorate stone palettes and other objects with hieroglyphs; craftsmen worked skillfully with copper and silver. In China and Mesopotamia merchants were keeping track of their...
...transportation improved, thanks to the wheel, sailing ships and the domestication of donkeys, connections between far-flung villages and towns expanded dramatically. A flourishing international trade developed in copper ore, gold, ivory, grain, olive oil, wine and other wares. Explains anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "This was the beginning of a global economy...
...disappointed that I wanted to volunteer and couldn't, and that there are millions of people across the country who have hours and hours of free time to volunteer, but instead were watching "American Gladiators" and "Wheel of Fortune...
...arms throbbing and burning. "The doctor told me to stop typing immediately," recalls McCool, 32. He hasn't written or edited a story on deadline since. Nor has he been able to clean house, carry heavy objects or play squash. He cannot even drive a car; controlling the steering wheel with his injured hands is impossible...
...very least, I thought he might shake up the system in this election. I was willing to give him some serious consideration come November. But his wimpy July exit from the race squelched my sentiment faster than a tractor wheel could squash a cow pattie...