Word: benightedness
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How three such fevers run their course is the book's story. Good luck with cod, phenomenal success with lobster potting, lead them to quixotic ventures with a salmon net that almost cost their lives. How the two brothers are benighted at sea, in mist and storm, how their broken...
With Easter's devil-may-care father to take them to circuses and horse races; with Plenty of ponies in the enormous stables and old Jer Donohughe's hounds to follow, it seems to the children that pleasures will never end. But along comes the War. Easter'...
In English, the Foundation found, "students drop the study as freshmen, and literary knowledge tends to disappear. ... As for vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and...
What then are we to think? Are these New Yorkers trying to take us down a peg? Have we at last come face to face with a much talked of spectre of contemporary existence? Inferiority complex, that's what it is. Put yourself in the place of those benighted New...
His Holiness the Pope last week swelled the ranks of the Knights of Malta by the appointment of 14 Americans, some of them famed. The knighted: President Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Commercial Cable Co.; President John Jeremiah Pelley of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.; President Lawrence Aloysius Downs...