In a palace on the Piazza della Trinità dei Monti she gathered many of Christina’s former circle, including several _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of the Arcadian Academy. [7 Letters; M _ _ _ _ _ S]

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The city-states had grown through the rise of a middle class enriched by the development and management of commerce and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . [8 Letters; I _ _ _ _ _ _ Y]

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Moved by his family’s tradition of public service, Boethius dragged himself from these abstruse pursuits into the whirlpool of political _ _ _ _ . [4 Letters; L _ _ _]

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For a summer he served as a cub reporter on the New York Journal, in 1907, but finding the _ _ _ _ too strenuous for his temperament;, [4 Letters; W _ _ _]

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On the contrary, he conceived an original "state of _ _ _ _ _ _ " (and therefore the original nature of man) as a condition of competition and mutual aggression checked only by fear, [6 Letters; N _ _ _ _ E]

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Colonial and other overseas trade gave British industry a foreign _ _ _ _ _ _ unrivaled in the eighteenth century. [6 Letters; M _ _ _ _ T]

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and the frescoes of Giotto and Masaccio, gave some hints to a style that was nevertheless unlike anything else that _ _ _ _ _ _ _ has preserved. [7 Letters; H _ _ _ _ _ Y]

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Too often he used lath and plaster instead of stone; even a first glance reveals a fragility forgivable in interior _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ but unpardonable in external structure. [10 Letters; D _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ N]

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The inadequate and biased transmission of news, and the profitable dissemination of nonsense, barred the general _ _ _ _ _ _ from any intelligent or concerted participation in politics, and made democracy impossible. [6 Letters; P _ _ _ _ C]

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In the center of the square, athwart a passage two _ _ _ _ wide, twin pyres had been erected of wood mixed with pitch, oil, resin, and gunpowder, [4 Letters; F _ _ _]

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to which was added as strong a dose of the classics as comported with training in sports, public affairs, and the _ _ _ _ of war. [4 Letters; A _ _ _]

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How long would the partitioning of Poland keep Russia, Prussia, and Austria too busy in the east to restore the divine _ _ _ _ _ of kings in the west? [5 Letters; R _ _ _ T]

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"100 Our moral _ _ _ _ _ comes not from Heaven but from sympathy ; fellow feeling with our fellow men; and this feeling is part of the social instinct by which, fearing isolation, [5 Letters; S _ _ _ E]

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From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had _ _ _ _ . [4 Letters; N _ _ _]

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Meanwhile wealth had created leisure; an aristocracy of culture was growing up in which freedom of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was tolerated because only a small minority could read. [7 Letters; T _ _ _ _ _ T]

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While the rich played with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and art, science and philosophy, the simpler folk listened to street singers, or strummed their own lutes and sang their own songs. [10 Letters; L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E]

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loans could be obtained from such Rothschilds at eighteen per cent, and there was much talk of promissory _ _ _ _ _ . [5 Letters; N _ _ _ S]

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In general the status of woman was high; never had women been more unfettered in _ _ _ and custom, or more influential in government. [3 Letters; L _ _]

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"God lent me industry," he said, "so that I learned well; but I had to put up with a great _ _ _ _ of annoyance from his assistants." [4 Letters; D _ _ _]

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