Word: wind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canada in many a year. The central figure of the story,. Alayne, a participant of a more effete civilization, shares the reader's interest and bewilderment at the gnarled fibrous character of old Adeline, who towers over the book like a huge shadowy tree, leaves stirring in the wind, roots stirring in the tight, tough soil...
...wind...
...STORY OF GEOLOGY-Allan L. Benson-Cosmopolitan ($4). The vast rhythms of the dying stars, the sleepy, dwindling music of the tides, the rigadoons that dinosaurs danced in a primeval sunset, the hungry chisels of rain and wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles...
...same time an ugly storm gathered its forces of wind and rain, and, shrieking, screaming behind the white-topped sea mountains, lashed itself into tortuous fury and vent its wrath on this same island of Kiushiu...
...western shore, carrying great boats high into the air and dashing them onto inland rice fields in the vicinity of Nagasaki. The towns of Nakamura and Kojima were wrecked. Jetties, heavy laden barges, motor boats were crushed by the terrific weight of water or blown away by the screeching wind...