Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feverish preparations are now going on in Russia to withstand the Japanese plans. Russia has double-tracked its Siberian railroads; it has sent colonies of men into Siberia. But Russia's great difficulty is that it is too far away from the seat of trouble, Northern Manchuria...
...word from another trapper in mid-November that Allen's hand was mighty bad. Snow had not yet shut Kokadjo in for the winter. Nurse Hamilton found the lean, grey trapper still up & around, but his hand was swollen like a puffball and he felt chilly and feverish. She bathed his hand, gave him some pills and something hot to drink. She came back off & on for two weeks but by then Trapper Macdougall was so much worse that she got a neighbor with an automobile to drive him into Greenville's hospital. Greenville's Dr. Norman...
...little man in his plain suit, standing there modestly, almost humbly. He speaks in German, not very well, pausing occasionally or even asking a word from those beside him. At first, though the silence is complete, you can hardly hear him. Then his voice strengthens and you listen with feverish eagerness for his message...
Nana falls in love with a feverish young lieutenant named Muff at (Phillips Holmes), whose older brother (Lionel Atwill), a pompous colonel, considers her a "gilded fly." But after he has sent his young brother to Algiers to cool off, Colonel Muffat starts pawing Nana for himself. By the time Lieutenant Muffat returns to Paris, the Franco-Prussian War has started, Nana has become a tosspot and Colonel Muffat has left his home to live with her. The brothers meet in the hall of Nana's house. They start to draw their swords. But since the point...
Interest grew feverish last fortnight when M. A. Wetherell, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Zoological Society, an African big-game hunter, breathlessly announced that he had found a strange, fresh footprint on Loch Ness's banks. Cried he: "It is a four-fingered beast and has feet, or pads, about eight inches across. I should judge it to be a very powerful soft-footed animal about 20 ft. long...