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life is divided into cycles each
Plato's philosophy of history was typical: the course of cosmic life is divided into cycles, each seventy-two thousand solar years in length; during the first half of each cycle, when creation newly comes from the hands of Deity, mankind's estate is happily ideal, but then decay begins and each cycle's latter half sinks from bad to worse until Deity once more must take a hand and make all things new again.
— from Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

latter is depicted in Commission Exhibit
A10-271 The penetrating power of the latter is depicted in Commission Exhibit No. 845 which shows that bullet possesses much less penetrating power with a quicker tumbling action.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

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