Word: darknesse
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Blinding javelins of lightning encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors...
Within the tiers which stretched away into darkness there was sudden scurry, footsteps and the flare of a match. A great figure huddled in a great coat escaped into the shadow. Another match flared, a shaded flashlight swept the long aisles, and in the half-light a face distorted with...
Early one morning last week a wet and weary man reached the house in Fairhaven, N. J. where he lived alone, peeled off his soggy clothes and flumped into bed. He was tired because he had come from a program of wrestling bouts in New York's Yankee Stadium...
Lying now in the darkness, alone with his frozen body, Bellower Humphries thought of crying out for help, discovered that his famed lungs and larynx still functioned. He bellowed. No one came. He kept on bellowing at intervals as grey light came to dispel the suffocating darkness, as the sun...
In the current issue of TIME (May 29) under Aeronautics I was somewhat surprised at some of the statements. In the first place, if I stay on earth till June 6 I will have been here 63 years. I have been in the balloon business over 30 years. I have...