Word: bleaknesses
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...France's midriff is the bleak Massif Central, mountain chain where rise little streams which become rivers that water most of Southwestern France. Last week four days' rain filled the porous mountainsides like a sponge, precipitated a flood which covered a district large as Pennsylvania, killed more than 300 people, did $24,000,000 worth of damage...
...Last week the actual fighting strength of the U. S. Navy was upped 10,000 tons when, in a bleak windswept ceremony at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the eleven million dollar cruiser Pensacola was officially commissioned. In ten minutes three flags were broken out, the watch set, the ship's clock started and the galley fires lighted. The Navy Department with one eye cocked on the London conference took this occasion to remark: "Events of recent years have proved only too clearly that a keel laid is not necessarily...
...looked on the bleak Himalayas and crossed the forbidden hills of Tibet honored Manhattan with his attention last week. "I was forcibly reminded of Mount Everest when I arrived," he declared. "This was when I saw the new Chrysler Building...
...Modern dormitories and fraternity houses. (Too pleasant, too easy for living, too comfortable; they should be of the bleak-attic type, well-roached, wide-cracked, simple...
...cast aside his doting wife, proceeded to the quay where he wagered the merchants his head against their wealth that he could catch the golden fish. When he succeeded, found himself with heaps of glittering bullion, he asked three strangers what lands to seek. A Varangian sang of his bleak country, a Hindu sang of India (here in the opera comes the long-suffering "Song"), but a Venetian tempted him most...