Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred the ray? The condensation into matter of light and heat given off by distant stars and suns,* suggests...
Senator Walker, at a nearby beach, which had been favored by a Mayor Hylan boardwalk: "His speeches, like his beaches, are strewn with filth and garbage...
...Last week it was whooping cough?no very fearsome obstacle but enough to prevent Commander Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Pole-seekers from stretching their legs ashore on Disko Island, Greenland, where urchins* were reported to be hacking, whooping, spraying germs abroad all up and down the rock-strewn coast...
...Peary and the Bowdoin steamed on again, picking their way cautiously through rock-strewn channels. They threaded Windy Tickle to lie in the lee of Cape Harrigan while MacMillan and Engineer Jaynes went to Jack's Lane to recover supplies cached there by MacMillan on his last return from the Arctic...
...Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...