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Dunckel had visited Mindoro in 1930. Said he, with a characteristic nervous tic of the left eye: "It's like a saucer tilted toward the sea. High and difficult mountains shelter it. This is the dry season, but clouds generally overhang the mountains...
...train roared into the station. A woman screamed. The motorman threw on the brakes, but he knew he could not stop in time. Two men waiting for the train jumped down on the track, grabbed the unconscious man by his shoulders and feet and slung him under the shallow overhang of the platform. They crouched there with him, while three cars of the train ground past...
Aside from the celebrated Italian question (see p. 20), two key questions overhang the Allied position in the Near East. There the Allies have perhaps 800,000 men standing to arms (and reinforcements coming every week) to plug the southeastern hole in their blockade of Germany. How about the Arabs? Will the Turks stay bought...
...long run it indicates a dwindling world demand for goods. The present decline, however, seemed to be more of a temporary readjustment after manufacturers had been scared into overbuying early this year, both by fear of further rises and by fear of strike stoppages. For no unmanageable surpluses overhang markets, and if goods continue to go into consumption at close to the present rate, manufacturers may soon use up the materials they have on hand...
...cockpit, whole scenes of serious sailing lived before him, scenes of the sea that gives New England its character. He saw the shores of the Kennebee River, a wild, fair stream, where the rocks jut right down to the water's edge, and trees, native pines, overhang the channel. Indians, the old Abenakis, paddled this stream in their canoes long before white men came with sloops and schooners, and all the modern devices for safety on the waters. He saw the waterfront of Portland, a city set on an hill, and a commercial center of no mean import, with...