Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive, after a voyage from rotting New York to savage England, ages slowly to his death in 2027, his mind a strange confusion of scraps of philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, erotica, all the arts and sciences, in consonance with the 34 chapters which...
...Although the quake zone is in a volcanic area, I firmly believe the earthquake was due to tectonic causes, that is, it was the result of the enormous and persistent work of erosion done by the incessant flow of great bodies of underground water. We must absolutely exclude the theory that the quake was due to the present activity of Mount Vesuvius. The volcanic centers in the stricken zone gave not the slightest sign of activity at the time of the quake...
...declines to undertake the last eight miles up back-breaking mountain grades. Construction job No. 2: A $525,000 town at the dam site to house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river's flow while the dam is being built. The whole construction job will be under the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation which will contract with private firms to do the work...
...friendly, unassertive person. A head profile comes from the salesman type. Mussy scrawls are due to disordered, scrambled minds. The little house with smoke curling from the chimney is drawn by the lonely, sad, disappointed-in-love, childless person. You never scribble? Then your wish, desire, will, ability all flow into the same channel. ELISABETH THOMAS Graphologist Los Angeles, Calif...
Protests against the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill banked higher at the White House last week. Requests for a veto continued to flow in. Henry Ford stayed overnight with President Hoover to repeat his belief that the bill was "an economic stupidity." Albert Henry Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank of New York, conferred long and solemnly at and after luncheon. Many another tycoon flayed the measure in public or prepared to protest when (or if) the bill should come formally before the President...