Word: float
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completed three years ago at a cost of $1,250,000, the Embassy buildings, with their bases of steel gridirons, are positively earthquake proof. Let Tokyo heave and they might slide down the hill, but instead of collapsing they would "float" on the wavering sea of earth. L-shaped, the uncollapsible Embassy home is faced with white stucco, has a dining room in the left wing of the L, a living room in the right wing, a State staircase in the crotch. Of marble is the Ambassador's outdoor swimming pool and he may refresh himself and guests in three...
...knees of Orpheus. Dripping lines of water from the teeth of Cerberus will harmonize perpendicularly with the legs of the figure. Human torsos representing shades in Hades have been carved into parts of the angular unsymmetrical base. When the fountain works they, like the dead, will seem to float in the mists of another world...
...decision was quickly made. Turning to the right, he retreated a few yards into the stream, and began towing the pole upstream toward Newell. Arrived near the end of the float, he pushed the post ahead, swam to the dock, climbed nimbly out, and hoisted up his prize. Secure from the angrily shouting crowd, he turned and politely doffed his hat three times, then proceeded across the float to the far side, dragging the guerdon...
...baffled onlookers were made of sterling stuff. Howling with rage, a few of the nimbler spirits began to scale the palings around the dock. Like a frightened gazelle, our hero, resourceful as ever, ran to the end of the float, pushed the log into the middle of the stream, untied the Leviathan, and pushed off just as the enemy swarmed over the fence and advanced in skirmish formation. Paddling vigorously with his hands, he was soon in midstream, and was nearing his prize when of a sudden his progress was stopped, for unhappily he had forgotten to untie the stern...
...printed, they should have surveyed it before supporting him, for it is common knowledge in this State. Forgetfulness of Bilbo's past is one of the strongest attributes of his constituents; and they are not able to complain that you used the enormous clouds of gossip that float about the State coloring his reputation...