Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend is not as manly as he might be, leads to a final quarrel. The quartet breaks up, Eugene adventures for a time by himself, finally decides to go home. As he boards the liner at Cherbourg he sees a face, hears a voice, that he knows will haunt him forever. Here the book ends...
...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
...little heroine had learned more than one trick on the street corners of her native haunt, so never despairing, she rallied those friends she had obtained for his friends and, one and all, they donned false buck teeth and eyeglasses of passing ugliness. It was, of course, arranged that if the boys were such as to really hit the spot, the disguises would come off quick as a wink, but strange to say the teeth stayed in, and equally strangely, the boys left. ("You know Amherst boys," the Freshman said...
Goat No. 2 was the Argentine, which is busily clearing its elevators of carry-over for the next crop. Visions of Argentine wheat flooding the U. S. haunt the Board of Trade, but the Buenos Aires prices are not yet far enough below Chicago to hurdle the tariff...
...past, these moldy ghosts of antiquated pedagogy long since defunct but not yet laid decently to rest rise from their uneasy slumber to haunt the most conscientious and industrious of students as well as those of easier academic virtue. There is not point in compelling the student to spend hours committing to memory dozens of formulas which frequently differ from each other by only a sign which nevertheless makes all the difference in the world. Too of ten the result is that the able student with a short memory is outshone by lessor lights of seeming greater brilliancy...