Word: splashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father heart worried lest they drown. Heavily be pondered and then, with sudden decision, uttered an official "Ja". It may be that no skater ventured until the next day. At any rate, not until that time were the Mayor's fears substantiated. While then, instead of a splash, came a queer thud for the Mayor had drained the pond...
...runway like a great cat, launched its four hoofs into the air and, for an imperceptible second, hung suspended so, in the image of Pegasus, a steed thrown sunward- then curved heavily, fiercely down burying its gloss in the brown water of a tank to the noise of a splash, a drum stroke, a great shout. Said the showman: "Often agents of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have come to stop us, and many have left saying that in their opinion this is the most beautiful animal act they have ever witnessed...
...terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased...
...diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...
...truth, as a library or as a mere collection, it is the smallest of drops in the largest of buckets. The splash is, therefore, proportionate in size. But why did the drop make the splash in the bucket at this particular time? The only satisfactory answer that can be vouchsafed is that this is the 155th anniversary of the great Emperor's birth, or the 103rd anniversary of his death. If neither of these answers is correct, the drop must have dropped not by any conscious cooperation of the publishers, but simply because it dropped...