Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over snow-capped Mexican mountains, over 700 mi. of Gulf water, the onetime Boston social worker flew. She picked up her landfall near New Orleans. Aided by wind & weather, guided by radio and a perilous run of nearly two miles...
John Bardeen, B.S. '28, M.A. '29, University of Wisconsin, now studying at the Princeton Graduate School in electrical engineering. He had charge of the magnetic work of the geophysical department of the Gulf Oil Company for two years. He will do research work on the electrical properties of metals...
June, 1895. Loessy winds puffed faintly from the gulf, and doxies paltered in their bordels. All Nebraska simmered in the heat. Lincoln, the new state capital, named for Mr. Lincoln out of spite by an unruly clique of power-drunk prairie politicians, sulked in the hotness--oppressed by the clastic ulor of its buildings...
...ladies in hoop skirts playing croquet on a shaded lawn. One of the most prolific of artists, Homer sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators in the U. S., he was paid...
...course by a star which he has never seen-to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach. . . . To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone-when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will-then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after...