Word: sphinx
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...platform, she imagines herself to be an alligator because the alligator basking in the sun is her idea of imperviousness to environment personified. "And not only alligators! If you want to be soft, think of yourself as a rose. If you want to be hard, unchanging, think of a sphinx. . . . If you thought of yourself as a thin person and lived as a thin person, I really think you would end by being thin...
...SPHINX HAS SPOKEN-Maurice Dekobra-Brewer & Warren...
...seeded players were out of the junior tournament at the end of the first round. In the junior finals, suave, sphinx-faced William Jacobs of Baltimore City College stood deep in the court and angled his placements this way and that past John Richardson of Dartmouth. Keyed up, perspiring, Richardson took two sets himself, once losing only 7 points in five games. Then Jacobs ran out the match: 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 7-9, 6-3. Over on the boys' court, the cream-puff passed back and forth between Mark Hecht and Bernard Friedman. Hecht returned...
...Sphinx of Thebes is not to be confused with the male Sphinx of Giza, in Egypt. Assyria, the Grecian and pre-Grecian settlements in Asia Minor, the Mayans of Yucatan also had their sphinxes...
...parents could have answered the Theban Sphinx, for like Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, famed Bohemian-born doctor of medicine and physical anthropologist with the U. S. National Museum, they have rarely seen children walking like little bears. In 1927 and 1928 Dr. Hrdlička wrote three learned papers on the subject of walking-on-all-fours. Only 41 cases could he locate, so he decided it was a rarity, gave it a Greekish name, tetrapodisis...