Word: exhaustingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible not to feel that this interpretation, though far more appealing than its antithesis, loses something important to the play. Hamlet's intellectual nature, or, as Coleridge has it, his habit of "calculating consideration which attempts to exhaust all the relations and possible consequences of a deed," is, after all, fundamental to the plot. In Mr. Evans, this side of Hamlet is not absent, it is merely submerged; but it has so become indefinite that one is actually not convinced when he says "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!" Neither can one answer...
...which has been the only thing to make life possible at all in the long torturing weeks of the Biannual Heat--now stubbornly refuses to depart. Everything--mind, body,--seems permanently, albeit painlessly, frozen with the icy breath of the Great Fear, which is said to be the odorless exhaust generated by one of the machines which throb all around Vag. Once or twice since The Descent began, Vag has been able to rouse himself from this lethargy, but his efforts have been isolated, heroic, ineffectual...
Imperial's muddle No. 1: its failure to provide the Cavalier'S, engines with the sure-fire exhaust heaters used with U. S. airline carburetors for the past ten years...
That Britain's airlines have not yet whipped the engine-strangling menace of carburetor ice (U. S. lines licked it in 1929 by heaters from the exhaust), was tragically demonstrated one afternoon last week. Less than two hours after Imperial Airways' four-motored flying boat Cavalier had left New York for Bermuda with eight passengers, a five-man crew, a series of terse, desperate messages began to reach the Port Washington base...
...plead with the caretaker to get "let out." A short time ago one resident drove out as the caretaker raised the chain and shouted out the window terms deprecating the general practice of chains and referred to the caretaker in uncomplimentary terms. He disappeared in a cloud of exhaust, but since then it has become increasingly difficult to get the necessary permission, residents said...