One of the greatest minds of the century ___ a ray of light on this gloomy picture by tracing the origin of woman's slavery to the same principle of selfishness and love of power in man that has thus dominated all weaker nations and classes.

Sometimes the ceiling ___ to open and let down a second course of meats, with showers of flowers and perfumed waters, while ropedancers performed over the heads of the company.

The slavish instinct of an oppressed class has led it to toll patiently through the ages, ___ all asking little cheerfully sharing with man all perils and privations by land and sea that husband and sons might attain

How significant are the levels of THg in the fish populations of our national parks? In a recent study, variations in site-specific fish THg concentrations within each park ___ that more intensive sampling will be required in some parks to characterize more accurately THg contamination levels.

The art masters of ancient Egypt never troubled themselves to tabulate the proportions of the human body or ___ them to a system.

Nothing in what remains to us of Egyptian works ___ the belief that they ever possessed a canon based on the length of the human finger or foot.

Theirs was a teaching of routine and not of theory. Models executed by the master ___ over and over again by his pupils until they could reproduce them with absolute exactness.

Computer science ___ similar increases today, having demonstrated particularly strong growth from 1980 to 1990.

Generally, fields with the greatest increases in the numbers of doctoral degrees ___ also had the most job growth.

Home health care services ___ the fastest growing detailed industry in the economy, with employment projected to increase substantially as we approach the mid-21st century.

Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler ___ to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust and, war.

____ this afternoon, the walls would be completely dry by tomorrow evening.

Angel DeCora began studying art at Smith College at a time when ___ in the European tradition.

The Australian apple moth had never been seen in the continental United States before last February, ___ found by a scientist in California.

When I learned that both events were scheduled for the same evening, I found it difficult to choose between going to the basketball game ___ the rock concert.

Bridget worried that she might not be able to bring back many souvenirs ___ only one suitcase on vacation

David was surprised to learn that frogs were primarily carnivorous, he had assumed that they mostly ate plants and vegetables.

A synthesizer - an entirely electronic musical instrument: can usually be categorized into either an "East Coast" or a "West Coast" design philosophy.

There are a wide variety of modern dance forms and styles to enjoy. That's one reason my hometown has many different dance studios.

A professional long-distance runners life revolves around his or her workout schedule, sleep routine, and dietary needs.

Though the words "vintage" and "classic" are often applied interchangeably, there is a subtle difference: "vintage" has a primary reference to age, while "classic" can add an additional connotation of elegance.

Musicians should carefully craft a strategy for their online streaming - the ability for their music to be heard instantly via the internet through a computer or mobile device) to achieve maximum popularity.

Alvin is struggling in math class this year; and there are many topics in Precalculus that he finds both challenging and frustrating.

Surfing (riding the waves on a wooden or plastic board) gained much of its' popularity in the 1950s and 60s in Hawaii, California, and Australia.

The art exhibit's brochure read like a "who's who" of famous Italian artists; Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci...

Etched into Peru’s Nazca Desert are line drawings so large that they can only be fully seen from high above. Archaeologists have known of the lines since the 1920s, when a researcher spotted some from a nearby foothill, and they have been studying the markings ever since. ______ archaeologists’ efforts are aided by drones that capture high-resolution aerial photographs of the lines.

In assessing the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, ______ have missed his equally deep engagement with Japanese artistic traditions such as Noh theater.

During a 2014 archaeological dig in Spain, Vicente Lull and his team uncovered the skeleton of a woman from El Algar, an Early Bronze Age society, buried with valuable objects signaling a high position of power. This finding may persuade researchers who have argued that Bronze Age societies were ruled by men to ______ that women may have also held leadership roles.

Seneca sculptor Marie Watt’s blanket art comes in a range of shapes and sizes. In 2004, Watt sewed strips of blankets together to craft a 10-by-13-inch ______ in 2014, she arranged folded blankets into two large stacks and then cast them in bronze, creating two curving 18-foot-tall blue-bronze pillars.

The city of Pompeii, which was buried in ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, continues to be studied by archaeologists. Unfortunately, as ______ attest, archaeological excavations have disrupted ash deposits at the site, causing valuable information about the eruption to be lost.