Word: magic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Because the quintessential stamp, which his works possess by virtue of the curiously rhetorical style and of the magic symbolism of sound, cannot be in any way represented in the English language, as was shown by Professor Kuehnemann, who read two highly impressive passages from "Zarathustra," it is absolutely necessary to be able to approach these ideas in their original medium of language...
...Through the Magic Door," by A. C. Doyle
...religious commandments such as "Thou shalt not kill." Homicide is the origin of private feud. Apart from the injury done by homicide, there is the great sacramental sin which has to be purified. The only persons who can wipe out this sin are the priests--the sorcerers of religious magic. The curse was the greatest power the priest could use to persecute the criminal...
...carried as dead to Venturewell, by whom he is immediately sent to his daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When Venturewell finds that his daughter has not been spirited away by magic, he is so relieved that he forgives them both on the spot, and all "live happily ever after" except Ralph. The "Knight of the Burning Pestle" is furnished by the citizen with surprising battles and adventures, excluding his summary transportation to Moldavia, where the Sultan's daughter is compelled...
...meeting of the Mathematical Club last night H. G. Leach 1G. spoke on "Magic Squares." Little literature, he said, has been published on the subject. The best work, perhaps, appeared in France in the early part of the last century. "Mathematical Recreations," by Ball, contains a very interesting chapter on magic squares. An engraving of Albert Duner's, executed about 1500, shows a remarkable square of the fourth order. This square has four cells or checkerboard squares on a side. Any column or diagonal adds up to 34. There are more than 500,000 different magic squares of the fifth...