Word: guardedness
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Sound Barrier. In Chicago, two burglars who broke into an electronics firm were startled when a booming voice said, -'Good evening, gentlemen. We remind you that this place is electronically guarded. We suggest that you turn around and disappear." fled emptyhanded when loudspeakers all over the building began shouting...
I regret the necessity to criticize the University's present scheme; it is probably futile to suggest that there are both sentimental and aesthetic arguments of validity against the destruction of "Shady Hill." Nevertheless, where an accident of Taste and Time creates something of beauty in a city's midst...
The possibility of making a deal with Russia for the lost territories has affected even the planning of Germany's new army. Colonel Bogislav von Bonin, a brilliant officer who rose to become, at 36, an influential member of the German general staff before incurring Hitler's displeasure...
If the Imam of Yemen failed to inspire one of Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the...
Its librarian, Mr. Sibley, bought up great quantities of books with the extra cash. Although Sibley, called the "guarding genius of the library," aimed to please distinguished men like Longfellow and Lowell who frequented Gore, he disliked students who "couldn't tell a book from a ball." Walking about "with...