Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nights last week a pale sliver of moon peeped down through mountainous clouds on the most frightful storm that has shaken the continent of Europe for nearly a century, a storm that uprooted trees, flooded valleys, furrowed the spume-streaked North Atlantic with giant combers, cost the lives of more than 200 persons...
Capt. A. T. Morris of the American steamer Maracaibo, leaned over the ship's rail smoking an evening pipe, gazing at the placid harbor of Willemstad, Curaçao. A thin sliver of moon hung over the tanks of the Royal Dutch oil refinery on shore, shone on the yellow plaster façade of the Governor's Palace...
...received a delegation of Wisconsin dairymen and nibbled a sliver of the 147-lb. cheese they brought him. He received some Duluth steel men, some Superior telephone girls. He slipped his hand under the saddle of a pony which 14-year-old Boyd Jones had ridden to Wisconsin from New Mexico to see if the pony was galled, which it was not. He asked President Charles C. Younggreen of the International Advertising Association: "How's the advertising business?" Mr. Younggreen said appropriations were increasing. "Business must be good," said President Coolidge...
...evening turned up the silver sliver of a new moon in the sky the German baker, Ernst Vierkoetter, kneaded his way, machinelike, down the last mile. He stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled...
...Mikimoto, 68, multimillionaire. He employs hundreds of men to insert a tiny particle of foreign matter within the shells of individual pearl oysters. Such a foreign body irritates the oyster to cover the particle with pearl material, a process that somewhat resembles the formation of a felon around a sliver in a finger. Kokichi Mikimoto employs 500 Japanese girls and many a man to go diving for the pearl oysters, hazardous occupation. Last week he debarked at San Francisco, on his way to inspect his Exposition show; remarked: "Naturally, I do not want to lower prices, but I have...