Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their eyes and madness in their breath...
...with South American life seemed to Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes. The farther he went, the sadder he got. So he named South America the "Sad Continent...
...signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view mirror to see if a cop is overtaking them. There are few books...
...particularly those of Imperial Airways, than any individual on this side of the Atlantic. Last week, after three days of conferences with Colonel Lindbergh in Manhattan's Chrysler Building, Pan American Airways quickly called for bids on plans made last April for up to twelve Yankee Clippers of breath-taking size- stipulated that preliminary general descriptions and sketches be submitted to Colonel Lindbergh by March 15 next year...
...spend their lives telling others how to conduct themselves and yet never manage to accomplish anything worthwhile themselves. Of a temperament eager and alive to things new, and yet not blind to what has come down from ages and generations past, he delights in old works which have so breathed the breath of life that they still cast their influence on people today, and he takes pleasure in the men who interpret these old works to a new age, a new generation, in the light of new ideas and new times...