Word: veined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notable on the Democratic side there are, besides Rollin Kirby, Cartoonists Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun and Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Eagle. But the Duffy vein is too broad to rank high and the Harding execution has been better than the Harding ideas...
...marine pilot, Capt. Howard, flying over Nicaragua involuntarily came to earth near La Luz mine on the east coast. His pontoon dug into the earth, ploughed a furrow. Corporal George Cole left to guard the plane, whiled away the time by panning out $100 worth of gold from a vein thus exposed...
...international jury, composed of ten able musicians and headed by famed Walter Johannes Damrosch, sat in Vienna last week. The jury wished to award a $10,000 prize to someone for the best musical composition in the vein of Franz Schubert, whose centennial the Viennese are this year celebrating. If possible, they wished to select a satisfactory completion, by the hand of some contemporary, of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...
...more data. In 1628 a slim volume of 72 pages with two plates of diagrams came out under his name-72 pages of clear, logical, dignified exposition in which the whole existing theory of the blood was demolished. Homer, Aristotle, Plato, every village barber who had ever breathed a vein had known that the blood moved but until the hawkeyed Harvey, no one knew...
...many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student is earnest, often betrays many an unknown vein...