Word: panorama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Mussolini, well nigh intoxicated by these splendors, climbed a steep and rickety ladder with intent to view in panorama the expanse of Leptis Magna, which slumbered beneath a protective layer of sand from about the Sixth Century until four years ago, when Finance Minister Count Volpi, then Governor of Tripoli, commenced its excavation...
...systematically and historically. In the first case it is divided into metaphysics, ethics and logics. Metaphysics is devoted to an examination of the essential nature of reality. It has a history extending far back into Greece, and farther into ancient India, where people first began to wonder what the panorama of Nature with all its manifestations might mean, and what might be man's place in the cosmical scheme. The problem of orienting oneself in regard to the totality of Nature is an important one. Metaphysics by itself is dealt with by Prof. Hocking in Philosophy 9. Ethics...
...follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
...many ways, this book is one of his best. By the method of psychological analysis, he reviews the past ten years, beginning with the War. In swift panorama, the spirit of a whole decade lives again, stained not with the anxious excitement of that time, but with a critical pessimism merited by post-War events : Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, scores of conferences, the Ruhr -- no sign of progress in the heart of mankind; but, the League of Nations, the World Court, codification of international law, etc. . . . ten years after, there is the beginning, at last, of a world opinion...
...fine panorama of European Civilization is given by your itinerary", said Mr. Burton Holmes, famous traveler and lecturer, when asked his opinion of the United States Line tour, which will be made by the winner of the CRIMSON essay contest, the closing date of which is March 24. "The tour", he declared, "is extremely well laid out. In fact, I'd like to win your essay contest myself...