Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blows off the plateau, month in & month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. "I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers," declared Professor Frank Debenham of Cambridge, president of the geography section, South Polar traveler, founder of the Polar Research Institute dedicated last...
...Look; yes, he has turned. The Supreme Pontiff is coming my way. In less than a minute he will be standing over me and I will be looking up into his face and kissing his ring...
...over me. I kiss his ring. I touch his hand extended. I prolong the touch a second. I wish I might never have to wash my right hand again. It seemed to me the next most beautiful thing to seeing Jesus Christ Himself. The Pope passes to the Bronx lady to my right...
...days before his wife sued him for divorce last spring, John Barrymore sailed on a Caribbean cruise with Elaine Barrie, a 19-year-old "protegée"' who had changed her name from Jacobs to sound more like Barrymore. Later friends reported that he bought her a diamond ring, shopped with her for a bedroom set. Last week Actor Barrymore was still being sued for divorce when he stamped out of the Jacobs' Manhattan apartment, went into hiding. Said apartment clerks: "He was awful mad." Said Protegee Barrie's lawyer: "Mr. & Mrs. Jacobs feel a deep sympathy for Mr. Barrymore...
...young Canadian named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), he finds himself one evening, as the result of nothing more daring than a visit to a London music hall, entertaining in his fiat a girl who tells him that she is a counter-espionage agent protecting England from an international ring which is selling the secrets of the Air Ministry and that she has just committed a murder. Hannay considers this nonsense until the next morning, when he finds his guest dying with a knife in her back. Thus assured of her veracity, he constitutes himself heir to her quest and with...