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Universal time   /jˌunəvˈərsəl taɪm/   Listen
Universal time

noun
1.
The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere.  Synonyms: GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, UT, UT1.



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"Universal time" Quotes from Famous Books



... swarthy Spaniard, and draped her and all the minor figures in the grandest drama the world ever saw—as well as the characters in older Scripture histories, in the Florentine, Venetian, and Antwerp fashions of the day. The defence of the practice is, that the Bible is for universal time, that its Virgin Mother, its apostles and saints, were types of other mothers and of other heroes running down the stream of history; that even the one central and holy figure, if He may be represented at all, as the Divine brother of all humanity, may be clad not inaptly in the garments ...
— The Old Masters and Their Pictures - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art • Sarah Tytler

... brief flash of lightning-illumination—one simple, fierce deed. Its sharp culmination, and as it were solution, of so many bloody and angry problems, illustrates those climax-moments on the stage of universal Time, where the historic Muse at one entrance, and the tragic Muse at the other, suddenly ringing down the curtain, close an immense act in the long drama of creative thought, and give it radiation, tableau, stranger than fiction. Fit radiation—fit ...
— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various



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