Word: butting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without descending to a technicality which would tax the understanding of more modern seafarers, Stanford nevertheless brings to the pages of his novel a real tang of the sea. His straightforward style, carries forward a tale spread over several years, without omitting anything but unessentials. Compactly, tersely worded, with excellent...
There is a two-fold romance--that of the sea and that of Dan Bover and Ann Duane, the slim and lovely toast of New York. Bover's unquenchable love of the sea, never satisfied except when he strides the quarterdeck of his ship, and his tortuous pursuit of an...
THEODORE Francis Powys is a highly skilled master of the craft of writing English prose. He inspires even a reviewer to aspire to the gentle knack of turning words askew so that their edges sparkle. In the tradition of the English men-of-letters who find a delicate amusement in...
Neither Mr. Powys nor his "Fables" are for the poor mortal who likes a good story, but who can not abide "literature." Like a medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you...
The operating results of firms reporting to the bureau for both 1927 and 1928 in the lumber, lumber and mason material, and mason material groups indicated that in all but the latter division gross margin was greater in 1928 than in the preceeding year. In all three groups total expense...