Word: dank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a sporting Briton, a sufficient reason for keeping dank Scotland in the Empire is its excellence as a breeding ground for grouse. This year there were the usual troubling reports that heavy February and March snows had scattered the grouse far afield, that coveys had been thinned by starvation and disease. But with the approach of the "Glorious Twelfth," traditional August opening of the shooting season, grouse were reported rising as thickly as ever. Last week on the moors thousands of beaters got into action with white flags, forming semicircles to drive the grouse over the concealed "butts" where...
...Arizona's climate, landscape and cowboys, Author Priestley less resembles a coyote than an oldtime prophet. The prophet's rhapsodies change to a jeremiad when he tackles U. S. women, Manhattan, Hollywood, the stricken man-made landscape between, the profligate waste of natural resources, the "chilly dank hell" of moral decay rising from U. S. indifference to its gangsters, its rich men and their political ineptitudes...
...dark, dank jungles of Borneo will be wilder than ever during the next nine months, and usually placid primates will blink in the unaccustomed glare of publicity, for the first qualified expedition for studying them will leave within a month under the auspices of Harvard, Bart College, and Johns Hopkins University...
...chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear his father's name, Mio Romagna (Burgess Meredith) gets a clue 15 years later when he learns from a newspaper clipping that Garth - suspected at the time of knowing something about the murder - was never called as a witness. To the dank tenement under an East River bridge where Garth is living with his benign old father (Maurice Moscovitch) and his innocent young sister (Margo), Mio goes one rainy win ter night to learn what Garth can tell...
...Truck Show is held in Newark because Newark is the nation's greatest highway freight centre, because Jack Winchester wants it there and because Newark's vast municipal Center Market Building can be rented cheap. On its two dank floors last week gleamed and glistened a collection of trucks, bodies, trailers, engines and accessories from 60 leading U. S. manufacturers. As in the Automobile Show, the exhibits included gadgets, displays, sections of engines, cinema demonstrations. Unlike the Automobile Show, the Truck Show's exhibits were aimed not at the general public but at the comparative few whose...