Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taipeh last week, General Chen relaxed complacently in a Japanese armchair beneath a pot of purplish-pink azaleas. Then, leaning toward the green brocaded table cover, grey mustache bristling, dark little eyes sharp under their puffy lids, he spoke...
...structure was divided into two rooms, with a large central hall and fire-place separating them. The westermost of these was the College chapel, while on the east side a large room was devoted to the College dinning hall or Commons, which had in the basement beneath it a kitchen that was then the largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof...
...knack of smelling out the oil beneath the cracks and domes of the earth, he added the know-how to get it out, rose in Standard like oil in a new field. In 1944, Gene Holman moved into the presidency, now gets $100,000 a year. He took his promotion calmly. On the day he was made president, Mrs. Holman got the news from the excited wife of another Standard official. When Mrs. Holman called Gene, he drawled: "Oh, yes, I meant to tell you about it when I got home...
...Police since 1846 maintaining a Widener-like order throughout the College. With a reputation for knowing the student better than does his dean, the 214-man force keeps its headquarters informed on everything from Mt. Auburn pinball machines to Boylston Street bookstalls, and not even the Radcliffe dorms are beneath its notice...
Toynbee begins his investigation far down in the pit of history, when the Ice Age ground Europe beneath a creeping glacier. The plains of North Africa and the Middle East (now deserts) were then fertile, supporting a thick population of hunters and their prey-aurochs, oryx, etc. Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time-the Egyptiac civilization. Later, the ice retreated. The plains turned into deserts. The game fled. The hunters, too, had to retreat...