Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing he needs "a little loving" and wondering about the trained nurses aboard. He records the deaths of comrades with as little flourish as he accords their...
...arrived in the luggage of Explorer-Engineer Grant Carveth Wells of England, who was going to take them to the American Museum of Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that ever excited awe in both sexes of human kind. Not Aesop's mouse who gnawed a lion free; not the three blind mice whom the farmer's spouse decaudated; not the clock-scaling mouse of Mother Goose...
...have a way of being self-made. Lawrence Downs is thoroughly a part of this tradition. After graduating from Purdue he went to work as a rodman for the I. C., rose steadily through the engineering department. A heavy man, mentally and physically, his particular talent is a blunt, wholehearted affability which endears him to all members of a profession in which this gift is the norm of social intercourse. "Handling men," he has said, "is largely a matter of getting them to like you." Charles Markham has said the same thing; Stuyvesant Fish said it too in the days...
...blunt Dutch nose, slimy with seaweed, poked upward from the depths of San Francisco bay last week, was followed by the emerging bulk of Her Netherlandic Majesty's submarine K-XIII...
Across the path of the still speeding dolphin a Danish sailboat tacked, jiggled. Like a blunt-nosed swordfish the torpedo punctured the sail boat's hull, churned and frothed with the expiring might of its compressed air, was carried to the bottom as the relatively worthless fishing smack sank...