Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clay or wax model, particularly because it would be so difficult to keep wax clean in London. Each color must be cast separately, the parts afterwards joined up with a hot tool. She has been especially successful in portraits of infants and small children where the delicacy of the flesh and coloring is beautifully rendered in the soft translucency...
...gown. Carp was clad in a light gray robe with black fringes. As the two fighters shook hands, Carp was heard to exclaim in English : "Good luck to you !" The Fight. Carpentier, though managing to remain vertical until the end, was converted into a pulp of bruised and bloody flesh by the slashing head and body blows of Gibbons. It was against the Frenchman's body that Gibbons directed his main attack, and as the final bell sounded, Carp's torso was seen to be a red, raw mass. Georges' face, also, was smeared with blood from...
...keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these things show pretty much pure gold the vein will soon be worked out. There is no eight hour day in teaching; there are no flesh pots. The high importance of the calling demands high endeavor and sacrifice...
...recent statement of the Federal Reserve Board to the effect that in the reconstruction of Europe-and particularly in the case of Germany-the dollar should be established as the international currency standard, caused trepidation abroad. Financial London, after a touch of goose flesh, has regained its habitual British sangfroid. Financial writers point out London's superior experience in foreign trade and its physical nearness to the world's ports compared with New York's. It has no intention of seeing the dollar usurp further the central and basic position in international trade occupied so long...
...peaceful friends are, I am afraid, forgetful that had their spiritual ancesters been as squeamish as themselves they would have all been quietly and efficiently incinerated, and thereby, deprived of progeny whether of the flesh or of the intellect. Had, there been no Gustavus Adolphus, we should not now possess the ineathnable blessings of Methodism. Hgit Whitney...