Word: jaggedness
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Years pass when no man can conquer and bestride "The Old Hag of the Alps"-the Matterhorn. Humpbacked, she towers, and her hump is a jagged ridge from which many have slithered down to death. About her hungry lightning tongues lick often, winds howl, and evil legends cluster grim and...
This recrudescence of Wafd supremacy among the electorate again threw into jagged relief the ugly fact that Premier Ziwar has continued since 1924 at the head of the Egyptian Cabinet almost solely because he is acceptable to Britain, the unseen but mighty tweaker of Egyptian puppet strings.*
Byrd. Off the frozen coast of Spitzbergen, with a blizzard raging, came Commander Richard E. Byrd with his U. S. comrades and airplanes aboard the Chantier. They were blocked from Kings Bay's one pier by the Norwegian gunboat Heimdal (she was coaling), and had to cast anchor half a...
At the corner of 14th and F Streets, Washington, there stood, early in the week, a low wall of bricks somewhat jagged at one end President Coolidge approached, took a trowel and spread some additional plaster with difficulty. "It won't spread well", he remarked with a trace of annoyance...
Whatever son of Harvard reads the condemnation of these noisy times by that wit and critic, essayist and Philadelphian, Agnes Repplier, will remember the hammers that are building the new Fogg Museum and which are heard between words of some lecture in Emerson or Sever, and readily agree. "Noise", says...