Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing please Comrade Gulliver? Ah, yes! confessed "an unwilling admiration for express elevators. 'First Stop The Seventeenth Floor' a gigantic upward leap...
...sniffing and listening around metaphysical corners for God. John Cowper Powys now and again casts his sterile chill. And there are other Powyses?a wisp of a mother, a "lovely seagull" sister, a rustic brother who dwells in "the divine oblivion of cider and ditch-digging, of making bulls leap cows, and bringing foals into the world...
Picture a schoolroom full of seated children, all tense, eyes forward, on the alert. Teacher sits tensely too, watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...
People who remembered the old non-stop record?the 2,520-mile flight from Mineola, L. I., to San Diego, made by Lieutenants Kelly and Macready in 1923 ?curled their lips. To that hazardous leap the ta,me to-and-froing of the Frenchman seemed like a little boys' game. Not so is the purpose for which this game was undertaken?a training test for a direct flight from Paris to New York. Landry, Drouhin, will attempt...
...when Bismarck's iron mastiffs were seeking quiet kennels wherein to rest after their leap on France, Richard Wagner looked for a place to make a home for his old age. He chose Bayreuth-a village three hours by train from Nürnberg, visited by few tourists. With the help of Ludwig, King of Bavaria, he built his theatre-an enormous mousetrap to which the world soon began to beat a path. Nearby, he built his house...