Word: brink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Juan is discovered on the brink of Hell; he obtains from the Devil ten years' respite; and is finally seen as the ten years end. The Devil brings back to damn him the 1,003 women whom he deceived in life...
...feet of water and mud. After digging around for years, with indifferent luck, Professor Thompson went back to Boston and acquired a diver's technique by engaging to scrape barnacles off the hulls of ships. Returning to Yucatan, he gauged the point on the sacred well's brink whence the victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge, and after removing tons of mud put on his rubber armor and steel helmet, dropped down and recovered 90 skeletons and a priceless collection of jade...
Time was when such news would have been the signal for a general alarm. Incidents like the burning of Smyrna or the Corfu assassinations monopolized the front pages of the large journals for days, while editorial Cassandras warned their readers that they were standing upon the brink of another world conflict...
TILDEN, ON VERGE OF DEFEAT, RALLIES MAGNIFICENTLY?TILDEN COMES BACK FROM BRINK...
Candy for Runners. Sugar, of which the system becomes depleted during a race, may be restored by eating candy, and the brink of fatigue thus staved off for a time. ?Prof. Yandell Henderson, Yale...