Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reads, in novels of travellers in far places--usually the South Seas--being approached by a ragged beachcomber with the request for the price of a drink, and recognizing, beneath the grime, a former class-mate of theirs. It is from the remainder that the beachcombers must be drawn. One can only wish that they had the courage to furnish their occupation to the class committee; so that their friends might look them up, on the veranda of some sinister hotel in the tropics and save them the embarrassment of asking for the drink...
...heavens, its enormous pistons thumping, dynamos roaring, cogwheels whirring, it was agreed that nothing so immense, grand, complete had ever been comprehended by the eye. For a while it seemed as if one would behold an entire civilization revealed from an Olympian vantage point, would glimpse its heart palpitating beneath steel ribs. Then the scenario took hold, reduced the magnificent spectacle to the condition of a god smothered with a dishrag...
...real foreign family. The students who arrange the program in each country are activated by patriotic motive and an interest in foreign peoles which belong to their educational tradition. The Tours will take three months and by spending a considerable time in one country the traveler will get beneath the surface over which tourists usually skim. In visiting additionally a country of similar, and one of different culture, he will be verifying his general impressions of European life...
...recent good will flight of the American aviators has heightened interest in the Latin-American republics to the south of us. For most persons curious in the world there is a peculiar alluring enchantment in any lands beneath the Southern Cross. Certain it is that there are few more fascinating stories than those of the rise of the nations of South America. At 10 o'clock in Harvard 2 Professor Haring will tell History 56 and the Vagabond of the genesis of the Argentine Republic...
Tossing leagues of the South Atlantic moved steadily beneath him . . . 500 miles . . . 1000 miles . . . more water and more water . . . an equatorial downpour . . . then an island. Commander Francesco de Pinedo consulted his fuel gauges. Yes, there might be enough left. The maps said only 270 miles from this island, Fernando Noronha, to Port Natal on the easternmost shoulder of South America. There must be enough fuel left, for the glory of Fascismo. Commander de Pinedo circled the island, so that he might know it well, then flew ahead. He had been flying since an African moon flooded Porto Praya...