Word: ceilinged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the native fishers, who looked on the continent as a distant planet, he was a wonder and delight. By day he would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he...
"Since the War, the developments in serial photography have been, for the most part, along the lines of improved mapping cameras to give accurate results which can furnish pictures with more detail and correctness. In the field of gathering information concerning troop movements, the aim has been to spot them...
"What is Spring?" she asked, "Spring," he answered, "Why Spring is when men sit on the front steps in the twilight smoking, when their wives sit with them, when all music is a waltz, when little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails and older sisters walk together laughing in...
Two lady harpists in trailing black came on the stage first, tinkered with their strings, looked grave as they tested the pedals, plucked a tentative chord or two. Cellists and violinists came next, took chairs on either side of an imposing conductor's stand. Then a brawny man appeared...
Both of the others are government officials. Gustave Van Belle, Commissioner of Roads & Bridges in Flanders, is a slim, diffident man with thin legs and a reddish face. He has been world champion three times, won many an international tournament with his artful sidearm stroke. Long-nosed Albert Poensgen, a...