Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Away onto the hot plain sped the Crane motor. Ten miles. At the village of Zubeir some shepherds shouted excitedly that there were bandits about. Twenty miles, thirty, forty. Every now and then Missionary Bilkerd would stand up in the machine and peer about, but he could see no bandits. Fifty miles, sixty, suddenly from behind rocks sprang the bandits, opened fire...
...Pair of Stories.?The popular im pression that Norwegian nature is a monotone in its cold indifference Ibsen somewhat dispelled by his twin studies of the two Norwegian extremes: Peer Gynt, shiftless, debonair; and Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights?Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death...
...evening in the year when the average student steps out of mediocrity and promenades, the peer of the best on the campus. The Prom is worth its price-and would be even if it cost as much as the Denver papers say it does. University of Colorado Silver and Gold
Citizens of the U. S. who wanted to peer at each page of the Ponsonby Report were glad, last week, that E. P. Button presses were whirring, producing copies entitled Falsehood in War-Time by Arthur Ponsonby, M. P., to be sold...
...this torpedo-headed dynamo from Detroit with the smile like Walter Hagen's and the sensitive sophistication in oriental rugs, was building up a facsimile and four-square competitor of mighty General Motors Corp. and that he was going to house it in a skyscraper where it could peer down over New York at the General Motors building on Broadway...