Word: breathlessly
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...breathless cramming rush of Divisional examinations which is forced to the attention of most Seniors, and many who soon hope to be, is not without certain compensations. And one of these is a sudden accurate knowledge of the Bible. It would be absurd to bring this matter to the attention of Harvard men for any high-flung religious motives, nor is it necessary to do so. The Bible is well worth a face value treatment without the psalm-singing hypocrisy that often goes with...
...Empire, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, the Serb-Croat-Slovene States, and Turkey, have had their representatives arguing before the Court. Many other states have made treaties agreeing to use it. So the situation is not that the rest of the world is hanging breathless on what the United States may do. If in previous periods the world has looked to us to set the example, that is true no longer. We have not held up the procession. It has left us behind...
...Dazed and breathless, I have been bruised and shocked, knocked down and run over by this fact, by that revelation, or by some astounding truth which I had not previously encountered in my brief span of years. Still I offered no opposition; in most cases, I merely picked myself up, brushed the dust from my coat, and set but to find new adventures, hopeful, unquestioning, perhaps the least bit daring...
...baseline, won the set, 6-3. In the next set, she again carried the attack to Miss Wills. Her low, back-bouncing chops on the wet court made the champion scoop up returns as if with a trowel, kept her lumbering from baseline to net until she was breathless. Miss Ryan chopped right, chopped left, chopped off Miss Wills' head...
Other feet approached the hut.Into view came certain breathless gentlemen of the law with yellow papers in their hands. They knew that the Stone Mountain Memorial Association had that morning held a meeting, canceled Borglum's contract, ousted him because he "had done no work, was antagonistic, glory-seeking, hard to deal with and under delusions of grandeur." The papers they carried were orders restraining Borglum from removing or damaging any of his models. They tried the door of the hut; it was locked. They peered through the window. Representatives of the press who came up at that moment...