Word: whims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible men, walking, talking, fighting, dying, the great chaos of war always seemed insanely futile from the air. From the new perspective of height the men who fought "in verminous filth to take the next trench 30 yards away" seemed incredible, since the pilot could...
...Whim, Not only the new Lifeline of Empire preoccupied Sir Samuel Hoare last week. Adolf Hitler was off on his white yacht The Whim to secret German Navy maneuvers in the North Sea, "and in Danish waters!" screamed indignant Danish editors. It was by this sort of thing that Der Kaiser in the fateful days before 1914 made his uncle King Edward VII and eventually all Britain so nervous...
...Court, where he eloquently protested against "a cruel experiment upon these orphans to shut them up and make them the victims of a philosophical speculation. ... If the courts should set this will aside ... it would be the crowning mercy of my professional life!" Unimpressed, the Court unanimously upheld the whim of the late Stephen Girard...
John J. Slocum, in charge of editorial matter, is lacking many of the articles which are listed in the table of contents. Since he considers the inclusion of this material essential, the Album cannot go to press until his whim is satisfied. Consequently, he will conduct his own drive this week to evoke literary output from the moguls of undergraduate activities...
...Britannia ruled the waves, but the Britons who made that rule possible were in truth not much better than slaves. Shanghaied by a pressgang, crammed into noisome quarters, half-starved on verminous victuals, paid a pittance, rarely allowed shore liberty, liable to a flogging at an officer's whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length...