Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth reached Portsmouth the evening before, spent the night on the 38-year-old royal yacht, Victoria & Albert. Early next morning newshawks with binoculars could see bareheaded Princess Elizabeth in pink, pattering beside her father round the quarterdeck for a brisk after breakfast constitutional. At 10:30 a.m. with the cool skies rapidly clouding over, the first admirals' barges began to arrive for an official reception, and as more cocked hats and gold lace than Portsmouth harbor had seen for two decades assembled under the yacht's awning the Royal Marines Band...
...April 22, 1915 a brisk wind was blowing from the German lines in the Ypres sector toward the trenches held by French and Algerian troops. Shortly after 5 p. m. the Allied soldiers saw a sinister greenish cloud rolling toward them across No Man's Land. Some of them broke and ran; thousands stuck to their posts or fled too late. Soon the trenches were heaped with gasping, choking, dying men. The gas was chlorine, 168 tons of which were released that day from 5,730 cylinders over a four-mile front. There were 15,000 casualties including...
...counter-machinations, by the untoward fact that Edith, Jane's girlhood friend and business partner, who owned a controlling share in Jane's prosperous theatre, fell in love with Oliver. Altogether it took two trials, a dramatic second auction, a happy and an unhappy marriage, brisk detective work and some stiff psychological third degree before the Antigua stamp found its rightful owner...
After three postponements due to lack of snow, the field of 30 skiers were rewarded by perfect conditions, fast powder snow and brisk, cold weather Times were fast: the first three men averaged about 30 miles per hour over the treacherous one and one-fourth mile course...
...famed Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin, to announce to his friend Charles Seymour that he had been elected the 15th president of Yale. "The news," said suave Mr. Seymour, "was a pleasant surprise." No great surprise to Yalemen, the news crowned two of the brightest careers in U. S. education. Brisk, witty James Rowland Angell has in 15 years transformed the nation's second university spiritually and materially. Quadrupling its endowment (from $25,000,000 to $95,000,000), spending the fortune of Lawyer John W. Sterling (Class of '64) on acres of gleaming new buildings, helping Capitalist Edward...