Word: reef
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were. Not far off, the heavy swells, uprearing to heaven, toppled forward in streaming white tumult and stretched away into a flat boil, as smaller waves will over a jutting reef or sand...
...hydrographic charts, it was so enormous that it must have been detected long before. Greater skeptics shrugged, pointed out that the charts were indeed old, awaited the findings of a French naval commission to see if a continent was arising or if the discovery. was merely an unknown reef...
Soul Fire is one of the monstrosities that some day will, no doubt, be displayed in a cinema museum as a terrible example of what all scenarists and directors should avoid. It sets out to tell the story of a man's soul pounding to pieces on the reefs of poverty. The first reef is Paris; the second, Port Said; finally the South Seas. It all came from a play called Great Music in which the boy finally gets leprosy and is given a year or more of life in which to finish his orchestral symphony. The cinema people...
...career of the Naval Bill which authorized building eight new scout cruisers and making major repairs on six battleships, including conversion into oil burners, went forward on a wave of success which suddenly subsided and left it on a reef. The bill, which carried about $150,000,000, was passed by the House (TIME, June...
...interest which has been aroused by the award of these prizes of slight pecuniary value is significant. Most of the Utopias of social reformers have foundered upon the reef of man's inherent self-seeking; and the necessity of the spur of personal gain has come to be frankly recognized. The greatest works of art and literature have doubtless never been inspired by this motive; yet with economic life pictured by Smith and Ricardo it has been deemed indispensable. While the Pulitzer prizes are for the most part a recognition of the merit of work produced under the stress...