Word: moldering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally I was in the copper shops...
...subtropical mountain rain forest, or "high jungle," of Venezuela, Beebe's zoologist-assistant Jocelyn Crane ran across a fantastic concrete hotel building that had been left to molder unfinished after the death, in 1935, of its builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande-nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime." With the consent of the Venezuelan government and the support of the New York Zoological Society and the Creole Petroleum Corp., the Beebe...
Branch & Leo. The shepherd of St. Louis' wild flock was Branch Rickey the Bible quoter, who dutifully shunned the ball park on Sunday, the day the turnstiles clicked most merrily. Rickey considered himself a molder of character, and Leo became his pet reclamation project...
...This Silence? Mann admits a lifelong debt to four great writers: Goethe, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky. Of Goethe ("the molder of a majestic personal culture") and of Tolstoy ("the primitive epic force"), Mann has often written with "enthusiastic eloquence." But he could never bring himself to write a line about Nietzsche (who suffered from creeping paralysis) or Dostoevsky (an epileptic). "Why," asks Mann, "this evasion . . . this silence...
...Some telltale sores: the violin player's on the left side of the jaw; the optical glass molder's burn sores and scars on knuckles and arms ; milkers' nodules which farmers sometimes get on their hands...