Word: hairbreadths
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...outstanding marksman like scoring by Winmill and Davis gave the galloping Easterners the hairbreadth edge required to defeat their enlisted opponents. Working beautifully together, Davis and Gerry put up such a formidable defense that their hosts were unable to find the necessary scoring loop-hole during the last three chukkers...
Though Marina Yurlova now dances for her suppers on the concert stage she once did a more dangerous pas seul. Readers of Cossack Girl may find it easier to read than believe, but Publisher Macaulay insists Authoress Yurlova's hairbreadth narrative is "authenticated by documents.'' No less credible than Joan Lowell's notorious Cradle of the Deep, Cossack Girl is a thriller of the same order, but better written...
...invariably they harmonize on taking their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises a delightfully discordant note. In spite of all temptation to add a glamorous paragraph to adventure's annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member of an unromantic generation, his typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene's awkward moment. Thus he remains true to the old flag after all. For anyone...
When he was Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg was called (behind his back) "Nervous Nellie." Last week his successor, Henry Lewis Stimson, came close to earning for himself the nickname of "Hairbreadth Harry...
...employ of the National Government in China, predicting the out-come, if any, of the Sino-Russo war. The glint of American gold, however, lured the great oriental prophet away from his position with the near-bankrupt Nationalist Government, and after a series of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes the doctor and his two American companions were able to elude half of the Chinese army and all of the Chinese Navy to set sail for Manila in their tiny craft...