Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans treat the opera as if it were a movie; they have absolutely no understanding for the art. They 'feel' music in an original and somewhat sentimental way, but they don't bother to test what is beneath the surface--the music comes in at one ear and goes right out of the other...
Again Col. Lindbergh flew where never man has flown before him. Over the jagged barrier of Andes from Bogota he soared upward to the east. Fogs blotted his landmarks. Once dodging beneath the clouds he noticed a pair of antelope and dipped close to the earth to race their frightened flight. Soon he lost his way; sooner again he found it and sank to safety at Maracay, Venezuela. He motored to nearby Caracas, shook hands, gave thanks for fervent reception, listened to Spanish speeches, prepared to hop to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands...
...Beneath the end of the slide wavelets rippled and laughed. Into them plunged, stern first, the Duchess of Bedford, with all the emphasis of her 20,000 tons. She is the second "Duchess" ship to be built for Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., now famed for its "Empress'' ships. First of the new series was the Duchess of Atholl. Came to her recent launching Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl. Hers was the christening bottle. She tended and swung it with the gracious assurance of a stateswoman, for she is now Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, a post...
...American colleges, as compared with European institutions, are doing a great deal of work that belongs to the secondary schools. The question is whether, the difference in American life and American practical requirements being considered, this grade of work properly belongs to the secondary schools. Our high schools, and beneath them the elementary schools, are by these fundamental American conditions, which are very practical conditions, compelled to carry as heavy a load as they can bear. Our educational system includes, and apparently must continue to include, scientific, industrial and commercial instruction, which is in no distinct sense a part...
...small hours of Saturday morning a mysterious prowler slipped out of the darkness and haunted Westmorly Court, sending chills up and down the spines of some of the awakened students as they trembled beneath the sheets, talking unconcernedly with others who were burning the midnight oil, and after a hairbreadth escape vanished in the murky grey dawn with over $100 in cash and over a dozen gold watches...