Word: hug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such journey, no tour de force, would serve to study the Arctic's floor. Some geologists believe that the waters rest in a huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...
...Hug. Into the courtroom came J. Conrad Hug, the Kansas City art dealer who has twice mortgaged his home to obtain money to combat Sir Joseph. A withered, white, frail little old gentleman, he told how he had arranged the sale of the Hahn painting to the Kansas City museum for $250,000, how the Duveen dictum had quashed the bargain. He said that he dealt in picture frames, paintings and etchings. Sir Joseph's lawyer, Louis S. Levy, was quick, acid. "The picture frames are a very big part of your business, aren't they?" Mr. Hug...
Back to Mrs. Hahn came favorable reports. Her experts, unlike Sir Joseph's, were relying on history, measurements, concrete evidence, rather than esthetic considerations. They were rumored to have discovered telltale thumbprints.* In Kansas City, art dealer J. Conrad Hug twice mortgaged his home to obtain funds for the defeat of Sir Joseph...
President Isidro Ayora, who, besides being his country's foremost surgeon, is a sort of Ecuadorian Hamilton under whom Ecuadorian finances have been reborn, was at the pier to offer Mr. Hoover a hearty abrazo (hug and back-pat), which Mr. Hoover accepted and deftly returned. The nation's leading newspaper announced that this was "one of the greatest events in the history of Ecuador, a never-to-be-forgotten day." At the reception, the Ayora speech mentioned Washington, Lincoln, Wilson. The Hoover speech mentioned the surplus (first on record) in Ecuador's treasury...
...theorical envelope of the earth's atmosphere, estimated to be 350 miles out. That it exists is the best current explanation for radio static, fading and silent pockets. Radio waves spray out from sending stations. Supposedly some hug the earth on their way to receiving sets; others reach the sets tardily by reflection from the Heaviside Layer. Probably the sprayed waves, going by the two paths, interfere with each other. One idea is that the Layer lies close to earth at the two Poles. The Byrd Antarctic expedition took along a Westinghouse ossilograph to find...