Word: tortuousness
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Peering into the long white trench of the Mt. Van Hoevenberg run, steep and tortuous as a market graph, 20,000 spectators at the more perilous races for four man teams were hopefully horrified by anticipating casualties like those in the pre-Olympic trials. The races, repeatedly postponed by bad weather, were finally run without mishap on a slow track. A U. S. sled steered by William Fiske, U. S.-born Londoner who won the Olympic championship in 1928, won with 7:53.68 for four runs, with another U. S. team second...
...Harbourmaster is a ripe book; no young man could have written it. It is full of humor, tolerance and a kind of cool dogmatism that you may more than once find irritating in the course of its 439 leisurely pages. Narrator Spenlove-McFee tells his tortuous tale in his own way and cannot be hurried. While the passengers of S. S. Camotan, on a Caribbean pleasure-cruise, fretted at not being allowed to go ashore at Puerto Balboa because a revolution had just broken out there, Chief Engineer Spenlove entertained some of them with a tale. The day before. Puerto...
...they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts. By the time you have struggled after Inspector Andrews through tortuous experiments to his triumphant conclusion you will have snapped at so many red herrings by the way that you will welcome the not altogether probable denouement...
...many years Sigmund Freud of Vienna has studied the tortuous ways of the unconscious mind. Moving his pale hands nervously about among the green pagan gods, the bronzes, the bizarre masks which cover the top of his massive desk at his home, he has written the testament of the psychoanalysts. This week in recognition of his lifelong work, he will receive the Goethe prize given by the German City of Frankfurt. The award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which...
...Northern merger rounded another bend in its tortuous progress. President Donnelly of Northern Pacific made two significant statements to his stockholders: I) "I do not think so" (in reply to a stockholder who asked whether the disadvantages of giving up the Burlington would not outweigh the advantages of merging the two Northerns); 2) The Northerns are "considering" the purchase from the Burlington of its line from the Twin Cities to Aurora, 111., and the leasing of trackage rights from Aurora into Chicago...