"The panther has been Cartier's leitmotif for more than a century. The first time the Paris-based jewelry company… alluded to the graceful jungle cat was in 1914, when the house created a women's platinum wristwatch with a case that resembled an abstracted version of the elegant animal'...
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 6, 2025 is: ad-lib \AD-LIB\ verb To ad-lib something, such as a performance or part of a performance, is to improvise it—that is, to make up words or music instead of saying, singing, or playing something that has been planned. /...
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Word History: This word was created by the French neurologist Joseph Babinski and published in Revue Neurologique 27, 846 (1914). Babinski combined the Greek constituents a(n) "no, not" + noso(s) "disease" + gnos(is) "knowledge" + -ia, noun suffix. We know nothing about the origin ...
The first known use ofcrosswordwas in 1914 See more words from the same year Phrases Containingcrossword crossword puzzle Dictionary Entries Nearcrossword crosswise crossword crossworder See More Nearby Entries Cite this Entry Style “Crossword.”Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https...
11. The work that Marie and Pierre had begun went on after his death. A second Nobel inchemistry went to Marie alone for isolating the elements radiu 18、m and polonium.12. With the onset of World War I in 1914, she recognized that mobile X-ray8 units could save lives in battlefield...
38 himself first by teaching jobs.then through the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller ) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include Chamber music(1907). Dubliners (1914). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Exiles(1918). ...
The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden in September 1, 1914. 24.In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger pigeons ___. A. were the biggest bird in the world B. lived mainly in the south of America C. did great harm...
16.Wha.___the.ofte.___(do.o.Saturdays 17.You.parents___.(read.newspaper.ever.day? 18.Th.girl___.(teach.u.Englis.o.Sundays. 19.Sh.an..___(take..wal.togethe.ever.evening. 20.There___.(be.som.wate.i.th.bottle. 21.Mik.___(like.cooking. 22.They___.(have.th.sam.hobby...
Non-Violence, the sculpture of a gun tied in a knot, is an example of surrealistic art. Unit4Journey toAntarctica 1. a.From 1912 to 1914 b.From 1914 to 1916 c.From 1916 to 1918 2. a.South GeorgiaIsland b.ElephantIsland c.Argentina 3. a.Everyone died. b.Some were rescued....