WD_ADV_JUNE_06

Strabo described the great port as "so _ _ _ superior to all others in harbors, roads, walls, and improvements that I am unable to speak of any other city as equal to it, [3 Letters; F _ _]

Since this, however, is a disagreeable subject, I will… say _ _ more. [2 Letters; N _]

In 1813, accompanied by his young assistant Michael Faraday, and armed with a safe-conduct issued by Napoleon while _ _ _ _ _ _ all Europe was at war, Davy traveled through France and Italy, [6 Letters; N _ _ _ _ Y]

The University of Salamanca rejected the advice on the ground that "the principles of Newton … and Cartesio do not resemble the revealed truth _ _ much as do those of Aristotle"; [2 Letters; A _]

But the mosaic art never prospered north of the Alps; stained glass outshone it; and with the coming of Duccio, Cimabue, and Giotto, murals crowded it out _ _ _ _ in Italy. [4 Letters; E _ _ _]

Silk was so common that men as _ _ _ _ as women wore it. [4 Letters; W _ _ _]

Its gospel of poverty and illiteracy could be accepted by _ _ _ _ a small minority; Europe insisted on traversing the exciting parabola of wealth, science, philosophy, and doubt. [4 Letters; O _ _ _]

and fast and pray until Buddha appeared to him in the flesh; he might be comforted by the Sect of the Pure Land, and be saved by faith _ _ _ _ _ ; [5 Letters; A _ _ _ E]

"103 But the paralysis gradually disappeared, and by 1795 Goya was strong _ _ _ _ _ _ to fall in love. [6 Letters; E _ _ _ _ H]

On September 7, 1764, by the unanimous vote of a Diet convinced by rubles and a Russian army only three miles _ _ _ _ , Stanislas Poniatowski was chosen king. [4 Letters; A _ _ _]