Word: dewes
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...middle field. We came in over trees, slipped steeply, straightened out. Now our wheels touched. We rushed swiftly over dew-studded grass and everything was suddenly very silent...
...litterateur, teaching aerology: "I find myself reading the word 'humility' as 'humidity,' and when a novelist writes, 'She burst into tears,' I mentally comment, why doesn't he say 'She reached her dew point...
Next morning, early, as the dew glistened on the cropped grass and the lilac bushes in front of Orient No. 2, no miners reported for the early shift. The whistle blew. "Let her blow," said a miner. "Sure, let her blow her head off." The miners were busy at other chores, mostly gardening. Said a grey-haired miner in faded overalls, spading his bean patch: "I hate to quit now. I got boys in the service and I realize what it might mean to the Government...
...hundred cities and off the antennae to a hundred million ears. It blats in the taxi, it roars over the public-address system, it speaks in the mess hall, in the midnight coffee stand; and it flops against the screen door, freshly folded, in the early morning dew...
...first batches were ready for shipment to Europe when the Armistice was signed. None saw combat, but lewisite had earned a sinister name-Dew of Death-because a few drops on a man's skin were sufficient to kill. Heavier and more persistent than mustard gas, lewisite is an arsenic compound which smells like geraniums, bears the scientific name of beta-chlorvinyldichlorarsine. While mustard causes many casualties but few deaths, lewisite was expected to cause a greater proportion of deaths...