Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew to shock when, on Page 14 of the same section, they found a two-column, five-inch-high, grey smudge, beneath which was the following caption...
...Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse of a laborer asleep in a subway to a literary party, from a professional invalid who needs "a wrap, a steak, a toddy and a kick!" to a celebrity who seems "so small beneath her crown!" A contrast between a farmer's "quilted hills" and a desolate city ruin suggests the type of life Peggy Bacon opposes to that which she satirizes. One surprisingly tender lyric, "Detached," indicates that she writes best when she is wholeheartedly sentimental or wholeheartedly mean...
Showing that geographical exploration concerns itself with investigating the earth from its crust beneath to the top of the atmosphere, Dr. Stetson said we must advance into these upper regions to discover new facts about the effect of the attraction of the sun and the moor for the earth, and about ultra-violet radiation...
...church yard at Aksum, Ethiopia a richly clad priest strolled beneath the drooping leaves of eucalyptus trees. Guardians of the sacred room are watching anxiously from their narrow windows in the cathedral. For with the priest is an American, a reporter. and the two are walking back and forth. The reporter has been talking at length and finally ends with something liek this: "But a look won't scare them away. Can't you understand what it means for you, for my newspaper, for the world if these sacred relics which you say the Queen of Sheba brought from solomon...
...Moscow, a triumph literally turned to ashes. Before the retreat, as the advance guard pushed on, Napoleon and most of his staff were nearly captured when the army and wandering Cossacks unexpectedly collided. During the retreat, Caul-aincourt saw refugees who were clinging to wagons fall off, be crushed beneath the wheels, while stupefied drivers were heartened at the lightening of their loads. He saw horses that fell, torn apart for food before they were killed. Pursuer and pursued mixed in a vast mass of suffering humanity, with isolated groups of French deep in Russian lines, crazed Cossacks lost among...