Word: womb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Napoleon's intense desire for a legitimate heir* caused him to divorce Josephine, marry Marie Louise of Austria. Said he, on hearing of the prolific reproductivity of Marie Louise's ancestors: "That's the kind of a womb I want to marry." Marie Louise bore him a son, L'Aiglon, who died...
...Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology told the Academy about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred...
...Misfortune-to others-has been largely the foundation of the Coolidge career. Each of his greatest advancements came directly from the womb of tragedy...
Then suddenly, across a dangerous ocean and a continent of war, his aging eyes hehld a great nation being born from the womb of a great theory ?Russia, the first-born of Communism. Like old Simeon he cried: "A light to lighten the Gentiles," but with more vitality than the Biblical patriarch he proceeded to write a book. He called it Communism and Christianity...
...this finite world, great men are merely concrete examples of the "ideal possibilities" of nature. But Mr. Santayana speaks of "other essences" always present "in the womb of the infinite", and so suggests the question of "who is there today that is really great?" In literature there are many prominent figures, among whom Kipling, with his genius for short stories and for verse and an occasional gift of true poetry, is the chief. In statesmanship--who is there? The cynic is apt to quote the great Disraeli, saying that "the world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into...