Word: rivering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thud in the head overtook me, the thud of wondering, imagining and trying not to wonder and imagine-the thud that has gone on continuously since that morning to this. Captain R. C. got his recall telegram and left, too. The next day was our village regatta on the river finishing with a burst of lovely fireworks on the river-the thud telling one as we watched, those explosions may be bombs and gun fire by next week . . . and they were...
...Eastern Shore oystermen, fishermen, farmers, who track the muck of river bottoms into her dim-lit office on the town's main street, she is "Miss Mollie." Some of them can remember when Miss Mollie used to give them candy in an envelope if there was no mail for them. In a town renowned for apocryphal anecdote, dignified little Miss Mollie has the rare distinction of figuring in none...
...Priests gave anti-tank prayers hoping to prevent Russian tanks from crossing the Dnestr River where the Poles blew up the bridge. But the tanks crossed despite the prayers and encircled obstacles which the priests had blessed and behind which the Poles had hidden. When the tanks approached the priests fled into the forests...
Harvard's hill-and-dalers scored a stunning victory over Holy Cross on the gruolling course along the Charles River yesterday afternoon. The Varsity triumphed 22 to 41, and the Freshmen...
Perhaps "Hollywood Cavalcade," as its title implies, is meant to tell the evolution of the movie industry from a puny stream to a raging torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...