Word: impending
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...knows, the Andrews expeditions have thus far unearthed sufficient in the way of dinosaur skeletons and eggs, rare baluchitheria and traces of Mousiterian man to substantiate Dr. Osborn's hypothesis in spectacular fashion (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923, et seq.). The program has been extended and paleontological portents impend for four years to come. "Asia is the mother of the continents...
...Marseilles in gulafres and dromons. Orena thought of a thousand centuries budding and withering, and called him Octans. It was extraordinary that they should be sharing this "tazza" thus. "The absence of conventionality sent the blood to her cheeks." But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity." She grew deeply attached to him; he of course worshiped her abjectly; they lived together through months of celestial bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid...
This decision leaves the Remington Cash Register Co. relatively free to continue as chief and most aggressive competitor to the National Cash Register Co. Other related suits impend.** But the Remington people are going right ahead with their production and sales. Already $1,500,000 has been invested in developing and pushing the Fuller arrangement, of which some 58,000 have already been manufactured. Also 3,000 workmen of the Remington forces can keep their jobs...