Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rope might break the fall, though at once I was aware that no rope could halt this double fall. The bodies flew down the terrifically steep couloir. The porter of my rope team screamed with horror and looked as if he were going to throw himself down the abyss. We all felt an uncanny desire to follow them...
...ordained in the Evangelical Church in 1915, held a Detroit pastorate until 1928. He is an editor of The World Tomorrow, a popular, dynamic orator. In his introduction to the Commission's report he says: "No matter how the Christian ethic is defined it remains true that a wide abyss yawns between it and the facts and assumptions of our contemporary industrial civilizations. . . . Shall a Christian busy himself to change the social order and meanwhile accept its limitations and inequalities as a fate which he alone can not change? Do his Christian convictions require and imply action in the political...
...think it would ease Europe considerably if Germany would make a jump into the abyss and declare that out of the Young Plan payments she will pay only $144,000,000, which is secured by the German national railroads' income, and no more. England, and particularly France, would begin to rattle their swords, but I doubt whether they would again occupy German territory. After a fortnight's rattling they would inform America they were unable to pay what they...
...first of these inducements needs no explanation. The second depends in part upon the ease with which the transition from inshore to offshore waters can be reached from Woods Hole, on the abruptness of that transition, and on proximity to the continental slope and abyss. At the same time, the Gulf of Maine, close at hand with its tributaries, offers a more promising field for intensive investigations into the interaction between the physical-chemical and the biologic aspects of Oceanography than any other sector of comparable extent along the coast of America. The thermal diversity, regional, bathymetric and seasonal...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...