Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work on it for nearly five years...
...Renown put to sea, the Fijians squatted in ceremonial postures, kept up a steady hand-clapping...
Special Prayers are arranged for use at British elections, and other crises, for the League of Nations, for foreign missions, for hospitals and for "the forces of the King by sea, land...
...like all vicarious enjoyment, the common delight in the Equator is nothing more than a set of illusions. The "summer isles of Eden laying in dark purple spheres of sea" are, and embody much more, than grass skirts and ukeleles. Today, in his lecture in Economics 10b. at 9 o'clock in Widener U, Professor Usher will speak of the offstage tropics, under the title of "Modern Tropical Colonization; Its Purposes. Methods, and Ethical Concepts...
...revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described one. The formula was enough to discourage the most boldfaced charlatan that ever sold canal water for a cureall. Elixir of life contains: "That which is tempered in the fourth degree . . . gold "That which swims in the sea . . . pearl. "The thing that grows in the air . . . a flower. "That which is cast up by the sea . . . ambergris. "A plant of India . . . aloe. "That which is in the vitals of a long-lived animal . . . a bone growing in the stag's heart. "The two snakes which...