Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who began the reindeer industry in Alaska shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows that from Cape Chidley itself, even...
...with broken skulls, floated and mingled with the blocks of ice, looking for their graves: or, turning in the furious whirlpools among the jagged blocks, they were ground and torn to pieces into shapeless masses, which the river, nauseated with its task, vomited out upon the islands and projecting sand-bars. . . . In on place at a turn of the river I saw a great heap of horses, which had been cast up by the ice and current, in number not less than three hundred...
...great mass of our people who have become weary and a little ashamed of seeing the United States bury its head in the sand while storms are brewing across the water, the President's proposal of joining the World Court has come as a bright ray of hope. The Republican Senators have turned their backs on the proposal. Public sentiment may, be next December, be strong enough to force Senatorial approval. In any case new senators, unskilled in the "art of doing nothing", will come into office to form a new legislative body. Meanwhile, of the old one: "We come...
...most successful recent use of expressionism is in the Theatre Guild's production of Ibsen's astonishing poetic drama, Peer Gynt. Full-grown people live in dwarfed houses; deserts are indicated by a suggestion of sand; fjords, oceans, mountains become a pile of cubist rocks and a blue line on the backdrop...
...explanation is intelligible enough to anyone acquainted with the laws of electricity, but to the layman the whole affair remains "miraculous": The aeroplane carried a cargo of about eighty pounds of sand grains which were charged with static electricity by means of a wind driven generator. At a height of 500 feet above the tops of the cloud, these sand particles were scattered abroad by the propeller, so that they gradually settled upon the cloud-mass below. The interaction of opposite electric charges between sand and moisture particles caused a condensation, and the clouds changed to rain, leaving a clear...