Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their twitching forefingers, indicated bids of a thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen's man for approximately $260,000, the elegant watchers burst into applause. Romney's Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia brought $60. And Van Dyke's Infant Bacchanals brought $15. The applause of the patrons of Christie was quite in the best tradition. It has always been the habit...
...bowls on Occidental library tables-so stole droplets of the yellow Yangtze flood in between the starch layers of the Rhineland's myriad passive beans, making them swell and shoulder one another, making their mass bulge and press against the triple-riveted bulkheads, until the bulkheads slowly burst and the Rhineland, despite salvaging efforts, was a total wreck. Scientific name for the creeping of the droplets: capillary action...
...Name the natural phenomenon by which beans burst the Rhineland's riveted seams...
...Assembly, and will presumably crystalize international opinion on the U. S. reservations. Since the Senate's conditions for adherence are somewhat ail-inclusively vague, and since no U. S. representative will be present to explain or defend them, the usual European barrage of recrimination may be expected to burst forth...
They shook hands with Explorer Vilhjálmur Stefansson, who pressed a stopwatch as he burst into congratulations to the two for having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.-a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions-Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan-had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans...