Word: suddenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Switzerland, last week, there was a sudden muffled roar in the Arbedo Valley. The tip of Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...
...past few years has arisen the notion that something is wrong with the colleges. From the volume of literature that this notion has produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
Thereafter Prince and Princess stepped from the holy quiet of the Kashikodo-koro, (where only the ancestors, the Emperor, and a few of the Imperial House may enter) into the sudden blazing sunshine of the city, Tokyo. A joyous roar of Banzai greeted them, for 60,000 persons had stood impatient in the heat, waiting to cheer...
Died. George J. Baker of Detroit, Mich.,** Captain & part-owner of the trans-Atlantic racing yacht Azara (TIME, Aug. 13); after a sudden illness; on board his boat in the Guadalquivir River, Spain...
...person of Michael McDara, he draws the sudden nauseating terrors, the megalomania, the curious mystical exaltations of the assassin. McDara, having conceived the assassination-idea, three years before, arrives in Dublin a few days before the act. He enlists the support of two men and a woman. His continuous struggle against panic, and above all the conflict of conceptions of the act's significance and symbolism make the book...