Word: murk
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...this old world murk the Vagabond stepped into the warm and well lit splendor of a shop. He was in Dunhill's and he was to buy a pipe--a straight grained pipe for all the world to see. He looked about him. In a far corner was an English gentleman in a Burberry, whose reverent hands stroked a pipe bowl that shone like well dressed leather. Here were three others helping a fourth decide between a crook necked and a straight stemmed. And there alone was one in a suit of tweed who gazed in silence at a loaded...
...discuss their problems and work, or by some adherence to a general outline of the basic material of the course. In the past they have held meetings only to discuss examinations. This would restrict to some degree their individual work, but it would go far to dispel the inky murk which often settles over the novices who take the course...
...staircase with narrow treads and high risers they entered the tomb's antechamber. Nothing remarkable there. Beyond was a flat-ceilinged room. Again nothing remarkable. But there was a second room in whose murk things glittered. Professor Caso forbade any one to follow him except his wife and two other assistants. Carefully they crawled forward...
...Pittsburgh, noonday crowds were alarmed to see a plane come spinning down through the murk, straight for the rooftops. At 500 ft. a small form separated itself from the plane, a parachute billowed out. The ship crashed noisily on the roof of the old Machinery Building at Frankfort & Duquesne Streets, tumbled off and fell upon two unoccupied automobiles. Floating earthward Pilot Melvin Garlow of Pennsylvania Airlines got his 'chute fouled on a cornice of the building. He cut himself loose, reached the ground with only a sprained ankle. Before accepting aid, Pilot Garlow crawled into his wrecked plane, made...
...economic murk enveloping the bituminous coal industry last week emerged the outline of a startling relief proposal at which most big mine operators, harassed by low prices and labor troubles, clutched hopefully. This was it: let the Federal Government declare soft coal mining a public utility and regulate it accordingly. Sponsor for the proposal was no less a figure than John D. A. Morrow, president of the $165.000,000 Pittsburgh Coal Co., second largest bituminous producer...