Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
...equipment of today is not the junk heap on wings that some people would make you believe it is," said able, active F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, to railroad men in New Haven, Conn., last week. He sketched the five-year aviation program, now under way: 2,000 airplanes, 1,650 flying officers, 500 flying cadets, 14,500 enlisted men-for the Army Air Corps before 1932. The Navy has a similar program...
...great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this rite they become officially "no longer men, but white winged birds which fly with earth and sand in their...
...tomorrow's game. Although neither of the coaches has announced a definite starting lineup, it is announced that the teams will face each other as they have started in their last major contests. In this case the starting order will be as follows: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Dorn r.f. l.g. Heap Leekley l.f. r.g. Ellis Green c. c. Hein Malick r.g. f. Vossler Barbee l.g. r.f. Picken
...doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort to herself" this sensitive...