Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of fissures in the wrinkled western shore of Norway is the Stor Fjord, an S-shaped water that snakes through the wall-sided mountains for 35 mi. before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord...
...every seat was occupied, stood in massed ranks at the back, trickled into the high galleries over the arches. They stormed applause when a stooped, smallish man with wide thin shoulders and greying hair appeared. They waited in silence while he adjusted the pince-nez balanced precariously on his narrow, prominent nose, ruffled some papers covered with fine, precise handwriting, began to speak in a clear, pleasant voice...
Swift and terrible as a sword-thrust is angina pectoris. Disease or degeneration may narrow the blood vessels which supply the heart, or a tiny clot dam one of them. Then, usually with exertion or emotion, excruciating pain stabs the heart, radiates through the chest, shoots down the left arm. With the pain comes a feeling of suffocation, an anguished sense of impending death. Sometimes Death comes with the first attack; sometimes, as it did to Banker Otto H. Kahn last week (see p. 63), after many...
...greatest financial success on the stage. In Hollywood, George Arliss is an extraordinary personage. He stops work every afternoon for a cup of tea, goes home at 4:30 no matter what the cast is doing. His director always addresses him as Mr. Arliss. He dresses in narrow trousers and a high stiff collar, carries change in a purse. Because he and his wife once saw some cattle starving in a drought, Arliss is a vegetarian. His theory ("I eat nothing I can pat") puts fish on his menu. He keeps an elaborate research library to help him with costume...
...races were postponed so that all the drivers could motor to Miami and watch Time Clock win the Florida Derby, and attend Harry L. Doherty's dinner at the Miami-Biltmore. The next day. a crowd of 20,000 gathered along the shores of Lake Wrorth, the narrow blue inlet between Palm Beach and the mainland, to watch the finals of boats powered by Class X motors for the William Randolph Hearst Trophy and the championship of the world. Drivers who had won at least one of the nine earlier races were eligible for the final. Young Horace Tennes...