Word: webs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pilot or observer sits encased in a web harness, firmly adjusted to his body by straps and buckles. Above is a small container of canvas duck in which the great silken fabric, of 24-ft. diameter when open, is cleverly packed. A "pilot chute" -an umbrella-like contrivance with spring release-rushes easily out of the container, catches the wind and hauls the main chute out in a second or so. The great supporting surface opens up in an instant. Carefully arranged silk shrouds, made of Japanese silk (the strongest and lightest of textiles) pass continuously from a ring...
...form in which criticism can be conducted more agreeably than in the essay." To 121 Ebury Street, London, he invites his friends: Walter de la Mare, John Freeman, Granville Barker, Edmund Gosse, many others. Graciously, in the candlelight, by his comfortable hearth, he spins for them the shining web of his prose. Hardy is damned; Balzac exalted; one learns that the writing of George Eliot is "without pleasure," that boiled chicken has never appeared on the table of George Moore, that the Lady of Shalott, is the one poem whereby "poor Tennyson" justifies his existence, that shad, the finest...
...newspaper?or, counting his Sunday editions, his 39th. He bought the San Antonio Light, his second newspaper in Texas, his 15th newspaper to have membership in the Associated Press. The reported price was $600,000. There are now ten states in which he owns two or more newspapers. His web is spreading...
...intend to spoil "Mistress Wilding" by retailing the plot, which as we have implied, is little less than the whole thing. The story holds one's attention; one is impelled to find out just how the daring Anthony Wilding escapes from the web that most of the other characters busy themselves spinning around him. And many of the figures do not lack color. Wilding himself, and his trusty companion Nick Trenchard are well-painted, having both form and substance to a commendable degree. The female characters can hardly be so favorably described. The heroine, Mistress Wilding, is rather a plaster...
...Pathfinder, a reputable weekly published in Washington, announced the birth in Pennsylvania of a baby, having "no spine, no ribs, no hip bones. . . . The lower part of the body tapers to an end that has the appearance of a hand or foot, web-like in formation...