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...persuasions, from the argument that "you haven't lived till you've lived" to the simpler muscular method. And despite his inordinate skill, it takes just two acts (out of two) for the lady to make up her mind. Your cousin from out West would call it "pretty raw," but it really is just a fine, clean portrayal of young passion, more freely translated than usual into the English tongue. On the side, of course, the play gives amusing vignettes of the everyday life of the sailor...
...starvation knuckled down on them, mutinous voices muttered, but Bligh always silenced them, kept on. Cannibalism was never even suggested but when they were lucky enough to knock down an inquisitive sea bird, the weakest were given the blood to drink. When they got a fish they ate it raw, entrails...
...such thinkers last fortnight was directed a thoroughgoing flaying by Scientist Compton's superior at the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also a clergyman's son. Accepting Science's true achievements, he nevertheless damned it for proffering ''green facts" and "raw empiricism'' as solutions to the world's troubles. Said young Dr. Hutchins: "We have more in formation, more means of getting more information, and more means of dis tributing information than at any time in history, and yet we are [skeptical of] science, ideas and knowledge...
...rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark's tough hide, the shark leather industry began to grow. Sharkman Young has spent most of his time since then supplying raw material. With millions of sharks to be had for the taking, he thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark oil is used for tanning, steel-tempering, paint-making. Tons of shark meat, which tastes something like lobster, are sold daily throughout the world, usually under the name of "rock...
...cost three, four dollars. They say fella named Cunnant out there want to change seal. That good idea--seal they got now too much woik. But I put 'veritas' on you for six bits. On the other hand, Tech boys, they more vulgar. They like nature in the raw" said the burly impressionist as he left his permanent stamp on the wincing customer...