Word: scenically
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...work was divided among the committee, Dunn taking charge of the group and scenic photographs. Blackburn of the individual photographs, and Bragdon of the literary side of the volume Pforzheimer was business manager but as he is now in Red Top will be unable to take charge of the sale and distribution. Eliot, in addition to having general supervision of the book, was responsible for the life histories of the Seniors...
...work, the daily program consisting of alternate periods of two hours of climbing and one hour of study. The investigation of rocks and glaciers is expected to take on new interest as new specimens are encountered at every few hundred feet of climbing in the setting of renowned scenic grandeur...
...plane at 8:30 a. m., arrive in Manhattan by train 48 hours later. Thus, the same plan of flying by day and railroading by night will be followed in both directions. This will, no doubt, comfort nervous passengers who might not like the sky at night, and please scenic lovers who might like the view by day. Also, greater safety will be achieved by the elimination of night flying. The treacherous Alleghany mountains will be crossed by train, in both directions...
...Shooting the chutes, riding on the scenic railway and going to the daisy-doser in the amusement park supply the necessary prods to children. The modern newspaper performs this function for the adult of higher mental level. . . . We cannot possibly attend all the murders, fires, earthquakes, unsuccessful trans-atlantic flights and other occurrences of the kind in person. The modern newspaper does this for us and thus saves our consciousness from 'innocuous desuetude...
...Lippincott award, foolishly titled Reverie, showed a woman in a black dress leaning against the back of a sofa; in her right hand was a book she had been reading five minutes before. Since then, the furiously traveling train of her consciousness had rolled down a steep, delicious scenic railway of thoughts and remembrances. Now this train was coasting slowly toward a standstill; the lady's eyes were closed with enigmatic pleasure; her smile would surely have annoyed a clever husband...