Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...clattering of plates and the jangling of silver can be heard but faintly, the addicts of the ivory ball gather round the Green Table, follow the clicking white cue-ball in its geometrical course. There, in the cozy twilight, they howl and argue and relax. When their backs cluster too thickly around the play, they turn and shout for help. They cry for the arbiter of this musky underworld, and from behind the counter a grey old man, watching with cold, steel-blue eyes, rises slowly and shows the boys. And once old Ben shows the boys...
...developing embryo, far more complex than a single cell, has a commanding genie and subordinate genii for each organ, each cell. So has an adult organism. Even colonies of individuals may have a commanding genie, as when the marine animals called Portuguese Men-of-War gather in a cluster which behaves like a single animal, with groups of individuals told off to perform various organic functions. Finally, the whole universe, which is in constant evolution, must have a supreme genie-the Cosmos or World Soul...
...here in fulfillment of your pact made with me. If you can manifest yourself, do it now." It was the second anniversary of the death of the famed lawyer and agnostic. On the bridge whence his ashes had been scattered waited Darrow's widow, son, and a cluster of friends. There was no manifestation...
Declarations and Bills of Rights are mere curiosities without a government to support them. England's debaters might have seemed to be purely academic were it not that behind all their experimental talk was a recent cluster of ingenious and hopeful .ideas for such a government. Of those ideas U. S. readers could get a fair idea from four recent books...