Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst crossing any of them had ever remembered. Passengers on the ponderous Berengaria told how their ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house had been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew...
...Bedoins of the Sahara" is a resume of the lives of a nomadic people. It portrays their wanderings and their communities in the oases of the Sahara. "The Nesting of the Sea Turtles" shows how these deep sea creatures crawl upon the sand beaches once each year, to dispose of their eggs in holes dug in the sand with their flippers. Six or eight weeks later the eggs hatch in the warm sand and the baby turtles troop down to the sea to spend the rest of their lives in the water. "Elementary Animals" is a microscopic study...
...Chopin's nocturnes on the piano. He had studied music under Josef Hofmann's father, and his playing brought out Shakespeare's poetical qualities for his mother. Her leading man was the late Maurice Barrymore. His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel and John, would crawl on adolescent Ralph Modjeski's knees, and he would dandle them up and down. For theatrical reasons he was obliged to pretend being his mother's young brother, to him and her a distasteful hypocrisy. Engineering he studied at Paris's College of Bridges & Highways (where...
From the four guns streamed a hundred bullets. Only eight of them ever reached the brick wall behind the seven targets. One man, all blood, tried to crawl away. A volley at six inches ripped away his head above the ears. The others toppled over into the careless postures of death...
...does seem as if the earth were the victim of a kind of heavenly conspiracy to make its crust crawl. Professor Stetson says that perhaps the stars, those eternal symbols of constancy, may be in the plot, too, allowing their rays to be deflected by an atmospheric tidal wave caused by the moon. Shifts in the axis of the earth, and tides in its crust are other possibilities, the scientists assure us, just like that...