Word: companion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ellen Glasgow, Romance and Sally Byrd. Editor Gertrude B. Lane. Woman's Home Companion...
...Hongkong, one afternoon, a door-knob turned. The door did not open. But the turning of the knob alarmed two people who were getting dressed in the shelter of the door to which the knob was affixed. Could it have been Walter? Kitty did not think so. Her companion, an athletic adulterer of 40, left her. Kitty sat down to wait for Bacteriologist Walter Fane who, at this point, had been a cuckold for about a year...
Last winter, El Nino was delayed a trifle. It did not reach Eucador until the second week in January. Dr. Murphy and his companion, Van Campen Heilner, went out in launches to meet it, measure its speed, density, temperature and so on. They noted that the sea's heat rose more than 60° that one day. Schools of flying fish appeared, shoals of hammerhead sharks, flocks of seabirds. Then, from what took place on shore, they noted that El Nino had come in vaster volume, gone farther south then ever before in history...
...Personally Professor Wambaugh is a charming companion, both learned and witty. He will be greatly missed both as a teacher and as a member of the Faculty...
...star Mira was discovered to vary in intensity by the astronomer Fabricus in 1596. It is a deep red color and fluctuates in periods of eleven months -is sometimes 200 times brighter at maximum than at minimum light. Mira has a companion star very close to it, which was discovered at Lick Observatory...