Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan had not been able to soar over the 10,000-foot peaks this time. Wilkins, his right arm fractured, had sat grimly by in the cockpit while Eielson felt his way between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing wheel missed a snow bank by inches. At Barrow, clouds...
...this man and to this man's government it is now proposed to present $1,500,000,000 of the American taxpayers' money. It is to fatten this monster and strengthen his arm, to sharpen his sword, to enlarge his cannon, to increase his war fleets, that it is proposed to settle with Italy in a manner that is nothing but grand larceny perpetrated upon the American people...
...queen and goddess of the white race of Tuaregs (Berbers). In the crumbling frame of a carved wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold alloyed with copper and some other metal, perhaps antimony, which would link the artifacts definitely with Punic work done at Carthage, on the Sahara's north edge, before its conquest by Rome...
...tallies in the opening canto. As far as winning the contest goes, these runs were entirely wasted, for John Barbee was in fine fettle, both on the slab and as a batter. His single manufactured the only run that Harvard needed to win, as his good right arm yielded but three infield hits to the invaders. No Brunswicker reached second base, and only four left spike marks on the first sack...
...himself on Hemenway and see how he likes the result. All I did was wrestle there for half an hour. That was a month ago and I am still trying to get rid of my little cargo of bugs. If I get blood poisoning and offer up an arm to the great god Impetigo, then I'm a martyr, I suppose. I'd rather have the arm...