Word: jaggedness
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The Gashouse is what old Tammanyites call New York's 16th Congressional District, a long, jagged strip of Manhattan Island that touches Park Avenue, stretches across proletarian jungles under roaring elevated lines and brings up at the piers of the murky East River. There lived and reigned such Tammany...
Tired of doing water colors of Dutch cows recumbent upon flat fields, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands spent last week in Switzerland doing water colors of upstanding cows browsing against a background of jagged peaks. While Her Majesty thus rusticated, in preparation for her Jubilee in September, it was confirmed...
The last Democratic President was prevailed on, during the World War, to cut the original Mt. Olympus monument area almost in half so as to stimulate private prospecting for manganese ore. Some ores were found, but the real wealth of the Olympics is their mantle of giant fir, spruce, cedar...
He closed his eyes and still saw a river, another river which looped almost directly beneath him as he lay at the rim of the valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid...
Back on his lookout, Vag lifted his eyes above the forest to the sky-line of distant peaks, in the high back--country. Here was the grandest sight of all. Against a violet, cloudless sky they reared in mighty heaps--some smooth and rolling, others leaping up in jagged swoops...