Word: benignity
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...Prospero is the chief character of Shakespeare's Tempest. He is a benign gentleman, always unruffled before storm or calm. He has magic powers over the earths, the airs, the waters, over men and beasts. These he controls through his servant Ariel, a sweet-voiced sprite, who often gives him sage advice...
Later, Jane Addams again took the rostrum, greying, spare and benign in her 66th year. Her penetrating low voice filled the hall with quiet reminiscence. She made no comment on a remark by President Vaile to the effect that the day of organization has succeeded the day of leadership in social work-the day of Jane Addams, Mary Richmond,* Owen R. Lovejoy**?but did say: "It is curious to notice the difference in world opinion 50 years ago and now. When I first went to Europe people everywhere were interested in the United States. They thought of America...
Definition. Cancer is one of three types of tumor growing in the epithelium, that is, the cellular tissue which covers the body's free-surfaces, and lines tubes and cavities. One of these three types grows in finger-like processes or ridges. It is called papilloma and is benign. Also benign is adenoma, which lines gland-like depressions or cavities in the tissue structure. Under certain conditions papilloma and adenoma may infiltrate into healthy tissues and sometimes displace them. Here they resemble in effect the third epithelial tumor type-carcinoma, or cancer...
...seeking sanctuary from a choir of hounds. There is a mighty steeplechase with the bookies hawking odds, the hoofs thundering and two poor jocks killed. There is lambing-time, on the spring hills thinly lit with frost and starlight; and coursing the whippets after Pussy, the dodging hare; and benign old gentlemen in red coats "hacking bitterly at small white balls and saying very evil phrases...
...globe is the second son of King Frederick VIII and brother of Christian X of Denmark. In 1896 King Edward VII of Britain prudently caused the marriage of his third daughter, Maud, to Haakon, then Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905 the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name of the long extinct Norwegian Royal House, Haakon. Sweden, pondering well the power of father-in-law Edward VII, made...