Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscious. Somehow, the rigors of death had impaired the higher centre of its brain. Not until that was restored would Dr. Cornish consider his experiment a success...
...hoping against hope for last week was that a new sequence of fortunate threes had been started which would terminate in Bazaar's victory this week. The prayers of every loyal Kentuckian, whose bet is traditionally "Bradley across the board," were raised that St. Edward of Lexington might somehow work another horse-racing miracle...
Lord of the drifting ice pack that crushed and sank his Soviet icebreaker Chelyuskin (TIME, Feb. 26, March 12), jungle-bearded Professor Otto Schmidt has somehow kept his crew alive, fed and sheltered for two months in the - 20°F wilderness of the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, while a semicircle of rescuers hovered from Cape Van Karem, Siberia, to Alaska. Last month a rescue plane swooped onto the ice pack, loaded the Chelyuskin's ten women and two babies aboard, got back safely to Cape Wellen, Siberia. Since then the ice pack, twisted by Arctic currents...
...factory. He falls asleep on a park bench, has a nightmare from which he is wakened by one of his workmen, with whom he goes home to supper. They discuss the labor situation. When the efficiency expert finally takes his leave, he has sworn to stick by the men somehow. Inference is that he will walk out with them when they are discharged; more, that he will perhaps become a working Christian...
...many a U. S. reader a nine-year period of suspense ended last week when F. Scott Fitzgerald, bad boy of U. S. letters, published his first novel since The Great Gatsby (1925). Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel...