Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight of the Outer of Saints Maurice & Lazarus.† His Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius IX (1846-78) ranked as a great dogmatist. Far more important than the loss of the Papal States were his dogmas of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and of Papal Infallibility. Leo XIII...
...that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were set on fire. Two walls surrounded the city. The outer, 8 ft. thick, rolled down the slope on which Jericho was built. Portions of the inner wall, 12 ft. thick, resisted the fire, still stand. Charred dwellings give evidence to substantiate the Biblical account that flames rolled over the city, burned the Canaanites to crisps...
...development of the motion picture has, curiously enough, been tied up with the evolution of its etymology. In the realm of entertainment, its first love, it has commonly been designated as "movie", "the silent screen" and finally as "talkie." As a dubious participator on the outer fringe of Art it bore somewhat proudly the name "cinema", with French embellishments. Happily harmonious in its simplicity, the word "film" has always distinguished the offspring of Edison in its cursory invasion of the laboratory...
...uninitiated much of modern painting and sculpture is grotesque and meaningless, but its significance cannot be lightly explained away as the effusions of a decadent and mildly insane school of Bohemians. The growth of all living art is caused by that outer fringe of radicals, who are trying to break away from the established order and create new and more expressive modes peculiar to themselves. It is true that a great many artists who belong to this borderland quest for the new and the strange are wild eyed romantics disregarding all discipline and moderation. There are also extremists...
...president's office, Mr. Springer left. The door was closed. The stenographers and clerks did not hear the lock snap shut. But before Mr. Springer reached the lift the sound of angry voices came from the room. Then, in startling succession, came a fusillade of five shots. The outer office froze into silent, motionless attention. Before it was broken there was a round of five more shots, the sound of glass falling...