Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...When the subject of astrology has been brought up, I have argued that a belief in astrology as a guide to life would lead to a fatalism that might cause many individuals to accept hard times as the foreordination of the stars, instead of struggling to master their fates...
...terrain are the great rivers which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject to flooding and one steep bluff on which most of the big towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west so that it presents no obstacle to an invasion from that direction. It offers an actual advantage, for when troops reach the bluff...
...boiled chronicle of a poolroom slob in South Chicago's vast Shanty-Irish district. Studs Lonigan was really the book Danny O'Neill had in mind, but all its 1,108 pages did not purge his memory of its hates and bitterness. So Danny himself became the subject of two later novels: A World I Never Made (1936), No Star Is Lost (1938). This week appeared a third, Father and Son, bringing the story of Danny O'Neill to 1,761 pages with no end in sight...
Tonight Dr. Henriquez Urena will speak in Spanish on the subject "El Sentido de la Cultura Espanola" ("The Meaning of Spanish Culture...
...also announced today that Dr. Henriquez Urena's series of public lectures in English, as Norton Professor, will begin on November 6. The subject of this series will be "The Search for Expression: Literary and Artistic Creation in Spanish America...