Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even. Each a prisoner of the other, neither could get into position to unleash the poison which would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken web, got within an inch of the terrified spider when City Prosecutor John K. Hull stepped forward, chloroformed both spider and scorpion...
...Angas pamphlet is more than a market forecast. It is "an attempt to explain and justify the Roosevelt experiment and to show how, if steadfastly pursued, it is bound to reach a successful conclusion." Major Angas admits that "to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy-go-lucky opportunist. . . ." But he believes there is an underlying theme which is "clear, consistent and fundamentally sound." That theme, says Major Angas. is monetary?simply "Reflate, then stabilize...
When the tale opens, the whole family is on a train, bound for "The Grove," their summer home in Rhode Island. Mark Waring is an Episcopal minister, tolerant but troubled. Luly, his wife, is "a saint, but without the unpleasant qualities that so often go with saintliness." Their children are Brad, 15, serious, dependable; Linda, volatile and imaginative; Dicky. funny-faced child who asks, "Papa, is a snapping turtle a mammal or an insect?" and "What State...
...woman held him. Harry had never been outside New York but was daft about Indians. Once he bought an Indian tepee, pitched it on an apartment roof where he and his little daughter spent long evenings talking about the Wild West. Then Harry was shanghaied to a freighter bound for Australia. For years he tramped the seas until the lightship claimed...
...Bound from Manila to San Diego last year, Commander Whitemarsh found his 477-ft. navy tanker Ramapo wallowing up & down the slopes of waves the like of which he had never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably...