Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquiries began to straggle in from people who had seen the stoker in operation. Suddenly realizing they were missing a trick, the two contractors dusted off the old plans, developed an improved model along lines already laid down in big power house installations in which coal is fed from beneath the fire, not dumped in on top. Soon the small stoker was launched nationally under one of the pattest trade names ever coined-Iron Fireman...
...father's conversation, he also develops physically in a simple sensuous joy of living under the influence of the sea, of sport, of life on the lovely ship. But as he awakens to the world, Oliver also becomes aware of depths of mystery and misery that lie beneath the summer surface of reality. His father's companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British Navy as a result of some queer scandal. Attracted by Jim's robust enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free...
...California campaign, he tells how a Christian Science healer once saved his life when he was dying of hiccups. Coue technique cured his wife's varicose veins. Sinclair deplores the lapse of the Church's healing powers, remarks feelingly: "Many people feel that it is beneath the dignity of an inspired religion like Christianity to concern itself with people's bunions and piles. I used to feel that way myself, but I changed my mind when I had suffered a great deal...
...immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could not get off the ground. Only light Italian ships were able to fly in pursuit of non-existent Ethiopian planes or to scout for Ethiopians invisible beneath the mist...
...Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound boy. Aged 18, Poling was a spellbinder and preacher himself. Barely eight years out of Dallas (Ore.) College, this husky, clear-eyed six-footer ran for Governor of Ohio on the Prohibition ticket. Though he was four years too young to take the office...