Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Valley of the Giants surrounds its heroic theme with robust climaxes as huge, numerous, tightly packed and ancient as the rings on a redwood stump. They include a free-for-all fight wherein a redheaded lumberjack named Ox (Alan Hale) demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place...
Organized in memory of Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim,* founder of the A.R.R.L. and until his death in 1936 its president, the relay spree celebrated the inauguration of service over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College...
...autobiography. But readers of his letters get a clearer picture of his wit, the range of his interests, the depths of his despondency. Eight years ago a 552-page collection of them carried his story up to 1892. Last week another collection of 672 pages carried it to his death...
...first volume covered the Civil War years, Adams' marriage and his wife's death, his editorship of the North American Review, his disgust with Reconstruction politics and his travels in the South Seas. The present volume covers the panic of 1893, the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese War. the Bryan campaigns, innumerable Washington anecdotes and scandals, innumerable expressions of fatigue and disgust. It includes explanations of U. S. foreign policy invaluable to future historians, as well as cranky comments about the Jews, weary descriptions of Theodore Roosevelt's energy (Adams felt tired just thinking about Roosevelt...
...extraordinary 408-page volume which includes 22 prophesies of developments in the next decade, a chart showing world copper resources and reserves, a chronology of scientific events since 3400 B.C., informal, iconoclastic discussions of economics, sociology, history, climate, mathematics, geography, the Bible, Henry Ford, Rockefeller, Leonardo da Vinci, taxes, death and housing...