Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With its main line running from Montreal to Vancouver, with the extent of its entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry...
...Toronto; Thornton at University of Pennsylvania. Beatty was Canadian Pacific President at 41; Thornton president of the Canadian National Railroad at 41. Both came from railroad offices, not from railroad tracks. Beatty took over a strong system, made it stronger; Thornton took over a sick system and made it well...
...write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are faultless, impressive...
...result of the whole affair seemed to be just a lot more whacking good publicity for The Cradle of the Deep and for Simon & Schuster as whopper-publishers, to whom any budding whopperist would do well to take his (her) manuscript...
...Brother Lawrence, as to the other Fishers, the world of mechanics is understandable, governed by ineluctable laws of physics. The Fishers have learned these laws well and by their aid gained gold. But it was quite another world which Brother Lawrence faced last week, a world strange and unaccountably called Art. Upon its vague terrain, he was nonplussed, vexed. That is why he cried, "Hell's ringing bells...