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...other than Europe. According to recent estimates, Europe will need between 554 and 460 million bushels of wheat in 1924-25. Disappointing harvests have occurred in France, Russia and Poland, as a result of excessive rainfall. The European demand is accordingly bidding for wheat, and the result is a buoyant and rising grain market...
...seacocks, to close all the openings with metal patches and concrete plugs. Then a six-foot pipe will be sunk through the decks; pumps having a lifting capacity of 5,000 tons of water an hour will be lowered. If everything is plugged up, the ship will become buoyant and rise to the surface. There are many "ifs" in the process, however. The divers may have great trouble in discovering all the openings. Bulkheads may be weak or damaged, may give way when pressure is put on them. It will be a great task...
...return to Myra-Myra was certainly a knockout. "In her cheeks was the claret glow of buoyant youth. Indeed she was throbbing like a motor with the spirit of youth." Just think of it! Throbbing like a motor! What a girl...
...Debs, guiding spirit of the Convention throughout, appeared to be buoyant and in fine health. Said he of Chief Justice Taft...
...present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that they could so brood over adopted progeny as to persuade at least a second paternity. When we consider the indelible Danish bias of the original, the success of this venture is as buoyant as it is inspiring...