Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped...
Twenty who took the questionnaire lightly made mention of the lack of a single speakeasy in Cambridge, the delicate looking women in the Yord, and the number of weird people who fit about the light of learning
Blinding javelins of lightning encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve...
...whatever may be on the table. For breakfast he regularly has two eggs, three rashers of bacon, two slices of toast, orange juice. On his sedentary boating vacation, he ate quantities of baked beans, gained 7 Ib. (174 Ib. to 181 Ib.). When he returned to Washington, looking fit as a bull fiddle, he declared last week he was going to lose that excess weight at once-''by eating less...
Count Nicolas has had an adventurous and egocentric life, whose parts do not always fit neatly together. A wild young aristocrat in pre-War Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity...