Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have been crippled at the start. A sorrowing U.S. military adviser commented later: "If one antitank crew had been able to pick off the lead and rear tanks, the 38 others would have been sitting ducks" (i.e., immobilized by wrecks at both ends of the column). Nothing of the sort happened...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum confronts the strong-legged visitor with almost every sort of art object, from Egyptian soup spoons to a colonial American sugar cutter. But critics have often accused the Met of being overcool to 20th Century U.S. painting. Last week the Met answered its critics by putting on exhibit 200 of the best paintings from its collection of U.S. art since...
...Australia and Africa there are spiders that catch their victims by a sort of combination lasso and harpoon. They attach a drop of sticky gum to a length of silky thread, and whirl this apparatus around their heads. When something edible approaches, the spider slings the globule. If it hits, it sticks, and the spider reels in the victim-playing it, if necessary, as a human angler does a fish...
...military and supply problems collectively; they are rugged individuals. Hence it is usually important that the young disperse as soon as possible, in order not to interfere with one another. With most spiders, dispersion is accomplished by ballooning. The young climb in great hordes to an eminence of some sort (e.g., a tree stump), and wait for calm, warm weather. When it comes, the little ones throw out streamers of gauzy silk and rise on warm currents of ascending air. If the currents are spotty, the spiders may come to earth a few yards away, but they...
...every page there are little examples of the discernment and wit that Jane poured into epigrams, maxims and observations on everyday life. A minor classic is her description of the waiters at an Oxford hotel-"all large elderly men [whose] sort of 'mazed abstractedness and sad gravity . . . gave one a notion they must have some time or other been unsuccessful graduates...