Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among her "satellites" such as Czechoslovakia. Last week, despite the fact that Brazil is still tasting the dregs of a coffee crisis, candid Provisional President Getulio Vargas authorized the purchase of two cruisers, eight gunboats, seven submarines, six submarine tenders. The present Brazilian navy consists chiefly of two dread-naughts, three cruisers, one coast defense vessel, ten destroyers, four submarines, one salvage ship. "The armament firms in every country are enjoying a little boom." observed London's New Statesman & Nation. "The Board of Trade has published some interesting figures about our arms exports to China and Japan. . . . The amount...
...Thinking Abbe Dimnet showed how men could add to their stature by taking thought. Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire. Motive for that desire he finds twofold-"the longing to live happy and the dread of dying ordinary." This longing, this dread induce men to follow strange teachers, strange doctrines. Hipped on some, they hobble along on others. But the true pilgrim's progress is not forwarded so much by crutches as by a comforting rod & staff. Such a vade mecum Abbe Dimnet gracefully...
...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
...offices at No. 39 Broadway Mr. Lederer has a street-level office, walls hung with pictures of famous liners which have flown the blue, white and yellow "Hapag" flag. He speaks with an accent which becomes marked when he gets excited. This is apt to be frequent and employes dread "E. L.'s" wrath although they know it is always justified. Legend is the story that one day he overheard a prominent Manhattan lady arguing about rates. After listening awhile he rushed up and bellowed: "Veil, do you want to buy the ship?" Startled, she mended her behavior, booked...
...improve him so that she can love him even more. To teach him hospitality she invites Cousin Anna, against his protest, to their home. Anna's free-&-easy behavior soon makes Lucy forget her dreams of hospitality. She dreams of her husband's possible infidelity instead. Her perverse dread alienates him. When Lucy drives Anna from the house he goes with her. In the ensuing pursuit he is drowned...