Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was danger. The "Red" Nationalist ship must run a doubtful gauntlet of anti-Nationalist Chinese and "White Russian" troops at Pukow before she could reach the upper Yangtze and the Nationalist Capital* Hankow. As Pukow was reached and the usual river patrol boat full of Chinese soldiers put off from the shore, Mme. Borodin and her three couriers steeled themselves to weasel out of many a question...
...Morgan was physically a strong, vigorous man, and in his youth was handsome. When his mind was in action his dark eyes shone like coals of fire, and his magnetic influence over others was beyond accurate and full description. When he was dealing with human affairs, however, the expression in his eyes was that of a tenderhearted, sympathetic woman...
...Weekly, financial newspaper, last week: 'Bewhiskered men in the financial district are not common. Some favor the mustache, but few go in for beards. George F. Baker, dean of the American banking field, is entitled to the honor of maintaining the dignity of bankers for he boasts a full-fledged beard, while the dignified whiskers of C. W. Barron, dean of the American financial news field, are known in Europe and Asia as well as the United States and Canada. Another internationally known individual whose consumption of razor blades is nil is Arthur Curtiss James, capitalist and yachtsman...
Then came the Civil War, "a white gash." Lincoln, a man of full height, was cut down. Soon after, men were describing life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom...
Only from men whose meaning is not yet altogether clear is there great promise - Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay - and from the new attitudes of science: pure research and speculation; the translations, such as A. N. Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, of science into full human existence...