Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away, but not before excellent shots of the gaping wound in the port stabilizer had been obtained. Somewhere near the Harlem River the ship dipped her nose?notice of an impending countermarch?and turned. Through the tweedy haze she followed the Hudson and was lost to view in a brace of minutes. It was twilight when the Zeppelin, her cabin lights aglow, settled to a lower level. Lady Grace Drummond Hay peered from a window, cried, "Hello," waved her hand. The landing crew, 450 in number, grasped the landing lines, slowly drew the ship to the ground. Four years...
ORLANDO?A Biography?Virginia Woolf?Harcourt Brace...
...appropriate verses of "The Armored Cruiser Squadron," until, massed before the ranks of rigid "Kaydets" he places his cap over his heart while he joins his fellows in whistling taps over the departed spirit of his adversary. If the tide of victory turns against his protagonists he stands at "brace" while the grey horde sweeps toward him, feeling that if the world has not come to an end--it might as well...
DOSTOEVSKY?THE MAN AND His WORK ?J. Meier-Graefe?Harcourt Brace...
HUNGER FIGHTERS-Paul de Kruif*-Harcourt Brace...