During the two grueling hours it took me and my fellow hikers to get into the gym, my fingers grew numb from the cold and could no longer navigate the crossword puzzles. I silently cursed those who “organized” this event. They deserved to be punched in the face or at the very least...
Answer:REVERT(i.e. “reply” – that’s a flat nope from me. There’s no overlap between the two words, or at least that I can see. There may be some historical context that the setter is referring to, but I’m not reading up on the whole US war of independence to find it. I...
Scepticism has been associated with science from an early time. The noble phrase ‘nullius in verba’ (take nobody’s word for it) was selected as the motto of the Royal Society in the 17th century: cited as ‘an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of au...
Although Dante may have inadvertently betrayed his own ambivalence by condemning the refusal to cowardice while at the same time recognizing it to be a “great” one, it is understandable that for Dante, who was doomed to a life of “tasting the saltiness of other people’s bread”, alienat...
I never cheat at Wordle or the Spelling Bee—New York Times word games that I play on my iPhone every morning. I like to share my legit ups and downs with my brother in law, who excels at these games. But I sometimes google crossword clues—like the many obscure pop culture ...
But after a short pause, it transpired that there was no mystery: The skies had darkened a little, and this was evident even from the small amount of natural light reaching into a room full of neon. That may surprise or impress nobody, but that is the...
All that is needed to effect it is that the appeal of the personal divine center be felt with such intensity that it overcomes the natural attraction whose pull would tend prematurely to fling together the pairs of human monads. From the practical point of view, however, I must confess that...