Word: sealevel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Imperial, Cal., (below sealevel) Mrs. Ben Hulse begged neighbors and passersby for news of Florentine, a common land turtle, who had been tied by Mrs. Hulse in the Hulse back yard, grown restless despite lavish care, been seen last proceeding toward the Mexican border...
...qualification. Dizziness must have no terrors for either. Perched on their respective peaks, the world becomes for them a distant and not particularly agreeable noise, wafted irrelevantly from an ignoble abyss. Conversely, the world is insignificantly concerned with the doings of the Alp scalers. Once you get appreciably above sealevel, you cease to be anybody's business. Incidentally, you cease to have any business of your own. Therein lies the glorious, soaring futility of art and mountaineering alike. Neither of them have any conceivable relation to life and the practical living thereof. At the same time they depend...
| 1 |