Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural breaks or pauses in the story, like asides in a play. The recommended procedure is to read each footnote as its asterisk, dagger or double asterisk appears. Any able reading eye should then be able to find its way back to the point of digression in the main text. Less nimble eyes can be aided by staking out the point of digression with forefinger or pencil. Readers too engrossed by the main discourse to break off are advised to reverse this process. Let them pounce on the asterisk with finger or pencil, finish the story, then return and clean...
...grime, received from Mary Pickford the Thompson Trophy-a gold plaque of Icarus, Greek myth boy, stretching winged arms aloft toward a modern racing plane. Also he mentally counted a third fat purse -$3,375. Admirers back-thumped him as the first man ever to clean up the three main events of the meet...
...Lord Tilbury, looking down, saw that a portion of her afternoon meal, in the shape of an appetizing potato, had been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...
...building is the main center of action here. Its corridors are thronged. It hums. The eyes of the nation are focused...
...defective transformer brought all passenger elevator service to a dead stop in New York's' 77-story Chrysler Building, marooned 14 passengers in cars between floors. In the crowded main floor lobby Landlord Walter P. Chrysler waited 25 min. while mechanics tried to fix his elevators, finally ascended to his office on the 56th floor in a slow-moving freight elevator. Hugo C. Leuteritz, communications engineer of Pan American Airways, would not wait, stomped up 59 flights to his office...