Word: youngness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspect," said Herr Bugammen darkly, "that some of the heroin listed as 'exports' is being peddled in Switzerland. We are going to stop that. We have just arrested 22 suspects in Zurich. Some of them, I regret to say, are young girls...
...healthy young woman, 5 ft. i in. tall, 120 lbs. in weight At athletics she does not lose her breath as quickly as do other girls. She can hold a singing note amazingly long. Physiologically her body gets all the air it needs because, breathing more slowly than normal, she breathes more deeply. The average lung after a very deep inhalation contains five quarts of air. A person can never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts...
...must decline the school's offer. He went to the English department, forthrightly asked if he was to receive the position. As forthrightly the English board met, voted unfavorably four to three. Their fancy fell upon Assistant Professor Frederick Albert Pottle of the Graduate School, a mighty young authority on Johnsoniana...
Wealthy collectors of art are usually old men who, upon retiring from business, find little to do. In Washington, D. C., there is, however, a young man who is devoting his life to picture collecting and propaganda. He is Duncan Phillips, tall, slender son of the late Major D. Clinch Phillips, Pittsburgh manufacturer (glass). For eleven years young Phillips has been owner of a one-man museum of modern...
...excessively ugly, good-humored and unambitious Peregrine ("Pithecanthropus") Smith, on a fortnight's pedestrian holiday from his police duties, meets up with an aggressive young Scottish engineer. They set out to cross Dukesmoor together in a thick fog. From the window of the moorland house a face watches them menacingly. Through the fog comes faintly the tolling of a bell-a convict has escaped! At Oakmere Pool lies the dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with...