Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...division of opinion prevailed among the judges at Williams Lake, New York, last August, as Norris led the field of the best long distance performers on the continent in 1500 meters. A light wind made the water choppy, but the powerful armstroke developed in the Indoor Athletic Building tank over three years of grueling practice paid...
...worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke, but we're having a lotta fun." On their most hazardous leg, 1,600 miles over open water between Japan and Shemya (near Attu), they got an escort of Army...
...cross Sand River in a small boat. The current is very strong, the water yellow and dirty. . . . Here we missionaries can live only in hiding. Here are many churches, but only a few which are not Red schools, assembly halls, headquarters, or depots for grain confiscated from the people. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon we arrive at the den of the Reds. The sick Father, a Chinese secular priest, is lying on his bed, pale and exhausted. The village Christians tell me that the Father is spiritually rather than physically sick...
Boiled ten minutes in water, MPF makes a soup or porridge with a pleasant, faintly meaty taste (nothing beany about it). It is a fine "extender" of expensive foods, taking on the flavor of meat, fish or anything else in the larder...
...change of scene was healthy also for the Choral Society, which showed considerable improvement over its first performance some weeks ago in Sanders. Ruth Abbot's arrangements of two Kentucky folksongs, "The Water-Cresses" and Hi Ho the Preacher Man," were sung with delicacy and grace. Cynthia Sweeney's solo in the former showed confidence and excellent control of her nice soprano...