Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wharton because, when he published Futility (with the aid of the late Katherine Mansfield), Mrs. Wharton, to whom he was a stranger, wrote: "Do, for the sake of all of us, keep it up!" His one other book, Anton Chechov: A Critical Study, has, as a critical study, no peer...
...huge dead eye of the sun that astounded him; that, he is said to have remarked, was "a simple piece of mummery, duplicable with a candle and a franc piece." But the thing that amazed him was that men, by means of charts, dials and tubes to peer through, had calculated to an 'instant the occurrence of this entertainment. He began to study Astronomy. When, at 16, he entered the Paris Observatory, he had already written a volume on cosmography. With Aeronaut Godard he ascended in a balloon to observe the heavens, wrote his researches in books that surpassed...
Lord Derby, sportsman and statesman, is the latest peer to sell part of his estates. Last week, for a price said to be in the neighborhood of five million dollars, he disposed of his Bury and Pilkington estates in Lancashire to Messrs. Green of Chesterfield. The estates comprise about 5,000 acres, on which are 50 farms, 500 houses and some 2,000 leaseholds...
...unacknowledged disciples, for the vegetable dinner more than held its own as against the aristocratic Virginian ham. And the Americanophobe novelists whose heroes invariably order ham and eggs in abominable French at the Dome Ronde must revise their next editions, for "ham and" has lost its place as peer, among American dishes...
Dormitories, recitation halls, libraries, banks, boathouses, subway stations, monuments and gymnasiums peer forth from behind tall brick chimneys and defy us to orient ourselves. The street cars thunder past every minute or two, and conversation on Massachusetts Avenue is impossible due to their flat-wheeled discord. The chance of meeting a violent death from automobiles every time we go to class has become common-place, and only a falling blimp or an earthquake can now thrill us. If the purpose of life be considered as a preparation for the hereafter, we are rapidly acquiring the proper nonchalance toward the transition...