Word: revoltings
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...analyzing this new movement toward faith, this era of spiritual restlessness, Dr. Fosdick brought out several factors that he considered to be the fundamental sources of modern religion. He showed that an intellectual revolt from the hard, materialistic view of the world was becoming more and more in evidence...
Since the exodus of Kaiser Wilhelm, periodic rumors of revolt have kept the German pot a-boiling. German Ministries have ebbed and flowed but only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...
...claims that it gives a sense "of liberation and enlargement". Bacon's "New Atlantis" he does not call a great book; in fact, with typical obstinacy, he calls it "not a very well-imagined nor a well-written book" and then includes it among the most important ten. "The Revolt of the Heavens" is a title of mystery to most readers, yet it comes as a natural choice in such a list. We must bear with Mr. Wells, and remember that if it isn't a great book, it is at least as great as the others included here...
...South, a revolt has broken out and a large force composed of peasants and Don Cossacks is moving on Kieff. In the Far East, General Semenov, formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies, is raising a military force at Vladivostok and proposes to start a counter revolution. In the West, Russia, with her finger on the trigger, observes the writhing struggles of all Europe...
...months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever forget: "Watching this glorious withdrawal of the ice. I was filled with terror and revolt at seeing the awful spoils which the Yenisei bore away in this annual retreat. These were the bodies of the executed counter-revolutionaries . . . Hundreds of these bodies with heads and hands cut off, with mutilated faces and bodies half burned, with broken skulls, floated and mingled with the blocks...