Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Virginia ... on the behalf of the whole country have decided to become your executioners. You have been . . . found guilty of subterfuge and as undesirable aliens. And now, as Governor of Virginia, I hereby proclaim that you shall be sent to the realm of unreality where you belong...
...Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and embellish the whole with a 500-word history of the U. S. by Calvin Coolidge...
...back of Traveller and pouring thereon a pail of "colored brick water." The "brickwater" trickled through Traveller, made a large and ugly stain beneath, thereby proving Will Tuggle's premise that a crevice existed which might in time become a rift and finally a mountainside to carry the whole memorial down to the dust heap below (TIME, June...
Detailed extracts from the diary, radioed from the Isbjoern and relayed by cable (the whole assignment will cost "well into five figures") said the balloon landed three days after taking off from Spitsbergen, that the party then struggled for two months over Arctic ice floes before sighting the glaciers of White Island. To celebrate the finding of land they toasted the King of Sweden and Norway in 1836 wine which he had given them. A month later, although food and ammunition were still plentiful, the men were dead. Guessers last week guessed they 1) froze to death; 2) were poisoned...
...time from his fishing-village demimondaine; he allows himself to be rescued, leaves without even saying goodbye. Instead, he sends his brother to make family apologies for her father's death. Later in the year, when the same brother comes to Mirthful Haven on business, he finds the whole village at a wedding. Eighty-year-old Captain Embury is marrying ig-year-old Edna Pelter...