Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Years pass when no man can conquer and bestride "The Old Hag of the Alps"-the Matterhorn. Humpbacked, she towers, and her hump is a jagged ridge from which many have slithered down to death. About her hungry lightning tongues lick often, winds howl, and evil legends cluster grim and hoar. Sometimes, when a climbing-hatchet slips and sickening pebbles roll, it seems that the Hag chuckles...
...undertow pressed its oily brine down into his lungs, dragged his body out for the depth crabs to fumble over. For three days and nights the boy's mother paced the beach, heedless of sprawling crowds that bathed, babbled and ebbed home to rest. She watched the grim ocean, lamenting. At seven o'clock of the third evening, Mrs. Ravmitzky stood at the foot of 21st Street, still muttering her lament. Occasionally a barrel stave or water-logged tomato was carried to her feet by the surf. In the lift of one wave she thought...
...picked up only the balls which he absolutely needed for his own activities. As for standing in one corner of the court, he approximated this direction only by trying to stand all four corners at the same time. Tilden seemed to encourage this youthful insurgence. The champion was grim. He did not fool at all and actually managed, with terrific serves and drives that swish faster than any others on this earth, to take a set, the second. But even his efforts, and those of the doughty Chapin, could not prevail against the gleaming, electrical teamwork of Richards and Williams...
...object to the Negroes; he was their friend; he had given millions for their advancement. Mr. Rosenwald is no idle dreamer. He is a profoundly respected business man (Sears, Roebuck & Co.), one of its most generous philanthropists. He has always been a force of purity in Chicago's grim politics. Last week he closed the door of his home on Ellis Ave., climbed into his limousine with his daughter Julia, was whisked down to the railroad station. He was off to see President Coolidge. Before the train pulled out, he gave a statement to the press. Illinois Republicans...
...British joint stock association, which from 1670 to 1859 held exclusive exploitation rights in what is now Canada, still endures. It still remains the sole contact with civilization which many a far north community has. Last week it acquired the trading rights of Moravian missionaries among the grim fishermen of Labrador, bleak 400-mile fringe of northeast North America. Recent explorations indicate that the Labrador hinterland holds high hydro-electric power stores...