Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Tacchi-Venturi, upon raising his eyes from his papers, saw a pale, demented face and a hand which grasped a slender, dagger-like paper knife. Quick, the assassin sprang. Quicker, the Jesuit dodged. As a result the knife barely lacerated the neck skin of Father Tacchi-Venturi. Meanwhile the sleepy porter had valorously collared Signor De Angelis...
From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
...earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come right through here. . . . There's the biggest bunch from St. Louis you ever saw...
...Dickey waited, for reasons of church policy, seventeen years after Mrs. Eddy's death, at the hands of her "enemies" in 1910, to keep his promise. He, like his leader, died before he had finished his work, so his wife finished the book for him and saw it through the press in 1927. Five hundred copies were printed. When Clifford P. Smith, chairman of the Church committee on publication, requested Mrs. Dickey to suppress the book, she did so, even recalling the copies which she had sent to Mr. Dickey's former pupils. Two copies recently arrived...
Hands at Lakehurst waved goodby at her and for almost a day she was seen no more from land. Her wireless, however, reported her nosing smoothly southward -off Cape Charles, Savannah, Jacksonville, Daytona. Night watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles...