Word: bleaknesses
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...stock association, which from 1670 to 1859 held exclusive exploitation rights in what is now Canada, still endures. It still remains the sole contact with civilization which many a far north community has. Last week it acquired the trading rights of Moravian missionaries among the grim fishermen of Labrador, bleak 400-mile fringe of northeast North America. Recent explorations indicate that the Labrador hinterland holds high hydro-electric power stores...
...Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction with strong bones...
...impressive, but then it has rarely seemed impressive against Tilden these last several years. Johnston can nearly always beat Vincent Richards, though Richards beats the champion oftener than anybody else. In the Davis Cup matches Johnston has made a better record than Tilden. But on the court with the bleak-faced Philadelphian his strength becomes as thistledown. In curious truth, the very soundness and accuracy of his game are helpful to the champion. Tilden likes speed. He likes a high-bounding ball. Johnston gives him both. Although "Vinny" Richards often beats Tilden, he did not last week. With a devastating...
...able to paralyze the circulatory system of an industrialized country to function. With the funds now at the disposal of the unions, this strength may be maintained for a month, and if no settlement be reached at the end of that time, the workers will have only a bleak prospect to look forward...
...strong iron cage behind a wire fence in Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, lived George Washington, male ostrich. He was not friendly. Keepers knew that his bleak eye, long nose and haughty air of breeding had made him many an enemy, but they believed that he was safe. The cage and fence, they thought, would keep scornful George from violence. One morning last week they found him dead. Dreadful marks seamed his long throat, marks that made clear that the naked hands of a man had strangled him. In the cage, near his huddled body, they found a man's overcoat...