Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Archibald MacLeish has contributed "A Fragment of a Chorus" from his new play "Panic" which is going to be produced in New York this week...
...disciples, who founded monasteries nearby. Twentieth Century French diggers in Syria explored the great edifice of four basilicas built in St. Simeon's honor, in the courtyard of which the base of his column still stands. Their last bulletin to the French Academy of Inscriptions was that a fragment of the pillar itself had been unearthed...
...could not go home even if he had wanted to, for his native town was soon inside the German lines. But Tarabas thrived on war, got medals, promotion, respect and fear. Out of a job when the Revolution broke up the Russian Army, Tarabas went home with the faithful fragment of his regiment, only to find that his native land was no longer a part of Russia but an independent country. As commander of the garrison town of Koropta, Tarabas was not so happy or so successful as he had been in the field. When a pogrom occurred, Tarabas...
...Shih, of Pekin, one of the leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, said that the Harvard scroll is one of the few fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed in 975 and deposited in the cavities made in the bricks that were used to build the Red Pagoda. When the Pagoda fall to ruin in 1924 a few copies were found still in fairly good condition despite nearly ten centuries of burial. The fragment is about three feet long, and two feet wide, or approximately one-half its original length...
...mass swooped in a long arc over Maine and Massachusetts. Groundlings saw its orange-red path, heard a mighty rumbling and hissing. Somewhere above the Massachusetts coastline the meteor exploded. At Salisbury Beach a crowd of Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke...