Word: envelope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local traders are missing no opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and envelop themselves in the traditional Christmas baubles, in order to catch undergraduate trade before the December 19 rush decimates the cash-bearing population. To set the pace, the city of Cambridge has already decorated its lamp posts. Yesterday workers finished wrapping the poles with strands of laurel and aluminum, and hung the final pine wreath on top. The cost of this decoration is met by the city with the help of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association...
...surface glance cannot do them justice. One thing, however, marks him as more than the usual scientist or philosopher: his tremendous drive to synthesize and apply philosophy, mathematics, and logic to the world in one thesis which could reach beyond the limits of each pigeon-holed science to envelop the universe...
...same sunny mood seemed to envelop the framers of Bulgaria's new Constitution, which abolished the death penalty. This was good news for Bulgaria, for Russia and for Nikola Petkoff, secretary of Bulgaria's Agrarian Party, whom the Bulgarian Government recently condemned to death for treason...
Controlled Growth. After a few days, the seedlings have ghost-white roots and little white spikes (the coleoptiles) which envelop the embryo leaves. Thimann cuts off the coleoptiles, trims their points, and strings the tiny hollow cylinders on the hairlike teeth of a comb. Then he puts them in water containing a little sugar and indoleacetic acid (a growth-promoting substance). He measures them under a microscope and tucks them away in darkness...
...Annihilation. His message was soon clear enough. The dashing young general, hoping to envelop Crazy Horse, had split his regiment into three parts. But there had been a "sad and terrible" mixup. One part of the 7th had been attacked before the others joined it. It had been annihilated. The other two had then been heavily engaged, until the Sioux broke off and retreated victoriously toward the Big Horn Mountains...