Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smashed through five games in a row, making Cochet run as far as possible in every rally. Cochet picked up one game on his own serve but Perry quickly took the next one and" the set, 6-1. In the dressing-room, Perry fainted. Cochet, still conscious but very sad, explained his fall: "At the beginning, everything was all right. Toward the end . . . my legs began to fail me, and that was the finish...
...Summer he is sad, for what once was may never be again, and he can only smile whimsically when there is scurrying along the bank as the police launch passes...
...practice flights which are part of Italian Air Force routine. But the 1,500-mi. drive through fog and the terrible threat of ice-on-wings, was the most severe hurdle. Then came the "downhill" laps to Shediac, N. B., to Montreal and finally to Chicago. A sad note was injected into the jubilation at Chicago when, at the Italo-American dinner, the toastmaster called the roll of Balbo's crew. Each man in turn arose to applause, answered "Present." At the end of the list the speaker called "Sergeant Ugo Quintavalle." (Sergeant Quintavalle had been killed at Amsterdam...
...order of frequency, E C and C E. S E and E S, E T and T E, N O and 0 N. The present keyboard, Professor Dvorak discovered, has many one-handed words which make the left hand do 47% more work than the right. Examples: greater, greatest, sad. saddest, safe, safer, was, were, care, dare, fare, minimum, you, in, on. On the Dvorak-Dealey keyboard no word or syllable can (he says) be written by the right hand alone, and only about ten common words and a very small number of syllables with the left hand alone. High...
...spoken to him like dream women wrapping him in an aura of honeyed words. He could feel the pulse of the orchestra and see the colored revolving spot ferret out the sparkle in some darling eye or sprinkle gold on some wisp of hair. And he had felt deliciously sad about himself and these tall willowy dancing girls who would soon be frowsy and decrepit. These fine lads going out late into the world to be broken slowly on the wheel of fortune. Thank God he had another year. He felt so sad for the whole world he could have...