Word: appearently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pile on his desk, apologizes for his occasional profanity, belies his reputation of being a mean, unsociable skinflint. The Annenberg winter home in Miami Beach is gay, but when Mr. Annenberg goes to "Ranch A" (for Annenberg) in Wyoming he prefers to rest in comparative solitude. Sometimes when guests appear he goes away, leaves them in possession. Last June Republican Mr. Annenberg lent his ranch in absentia to South Dakota's Democratic Governor Tom Berry who gratefully used it to see that visiting New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell had a good time...
Many an old sailor has never seen a waterspout, but when they appear at all they are usually in groups. As many as 30 have been sighted from a single ship in one day. Twenty or thirty feet is the average diameter, although a few are as thick as 700 ft. Spouts a mile high have been reported. Usually they move with the wind but may travel in other directions at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. Average life of a spout...
...Model No. 4) the same farm has been abandoned in the rush to the West: in the deserted fields tiny white pine seedlings are beginning to appear once more. In 1910 nature has restored the white pine forest: a portable sawmill has been set up and logs are being sledged through the snow to the railroad. By 1915 the hillside is once again bare and deserted. Fifteen years later, in Model No. 7, this twice cut-over hillside is again covered with trees but they are of a lean, weedy variety, fit only for cordwood unless drastic silviculture is practiced...
Thus Dos Passos intimates that the stories of his characters are not exceptional or unique, that the waste, confusion, purposelessness in their lives, as well as their good human qualities and inborn talents also appear in the lives of famed figures in public history...
...Adams does not drive herself. Tall, bespectacled and dignified, she seats herself at her grand piano from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. every day, says: "I just write what I know I can write." Words come to her from her unerring memory of Holy Writ. The anthems appear finally in a neat, vertical hand, a delight to music engravers. Her work done, Carrie Belle Adams devotes herself to her large collections of cream pitchers and quilts...