Word: dreadfulness
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...Zola's novel) with the mechanical majesty of locomotives, the modern industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In the morning the yards are seen bustling, in the rain forlorn, at night ominous. There is a gnawing dread that, like the human characters, the rushing trains will destroy each other, kill some one. But in the end it is the humans who kill and are killed...
...dangers that were soon to beset him. One man to play at death with a myriad host of others. Ye wise and aged seer Merlin Lautner had clear envisaged for him the pitfalls that would of a surety bestrew his path. The field was full astir with the dread enemy, loud roaring for his pure blue blood. Summoning his last ounce of courage, and calling up for the final time the image of the virgin Lily Maid, he ran the gauntlet with a desperate rush...
...that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best of terms with...
Aeroembolism. After rapid ascent to high altitudes a pilot may be attacked by sickness similar to the dread staggers, bends, or caisson disease of divers. Cause of "aeroembolism" is formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and spinal fluid. Symptoms are neuritis, joint pains, a heavy red rash, burning and stabbing pain in the lungs, a weird tingling "like a small compact colony of ants rushing madly over the surface of the body." For aeroembolism, only thing to do is come down in a hurry...
...beaming Clarks exhibited two of their brood of 85 windowed rabbits. In one rabbit's ear were tiny black specks of silica dust, which had been dropped into the raw tissue last June. Purpose of the experiment is to discover whether irritation of silica grains alone produces silicosis (dread "stony" lung disease often acquired by miners of silica) or whether complicating factors, such as mild tuberculosis, are necessary to bring on the disease...