Word: browed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here the hero paused. Men on either side wiped the sweat from his brow and pressed a glass of ice-cold water against his lips, while the Deputies cheered with all the fiery warmth of their Latin blood...
...blooded, almost brutal. But who was it that hurried into the locker building the moment practice was closed, ran upstairs to the doctor's room where the boy was lying down being bandaged, put one hand on his shoulder, gently ran his other hand across the boy's wet brow and remarked 'That's not perspiration, son, that's sweat'? Who was it that left a suffering boy with tears of happiness welling in his eyes because he had exonerated himself in the eyes of the man whose good opinion meant so much to him? That was the real...
Britannia's brow was furrowed with frowns last week. The three prongs of her trident ? Laborism, Conservatism, Liberalism? absorbed her whole attention...
...High brow," the definition implied by Newspaperdom, is a loose, archaic slang-word, absurd in its application to the normal, intelligent people for whom TIME is written...
Ward's inruption into the world of sculpture was spectacular. Its result is a series of bronzes-fierce, elemental figures, full of the mystery and terror and power of the jungle. A warrior, armed and tense, snarling; a chieftain, peering at one from under lowering brow; a nude woman and two children fleeing some grim jungle peril; a sorcerer dancing a mad dance...