Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pleased them just as much-a steady sale of Roberts books. Roberts was fast becoming something better than a best-seller-a publisher's property. He had started something with his historical novels. Suddenly U. S. readers forgot the proletarians, took up Anthony Adverse, then Gone With the Wind...
...cities were safer, but not much. The big wind hit Chicago at 11:01 a.m. In two hours there were 600 emergency calls to the fire department. Chimneys went down, a water tank plunged through a roof, a cornice dropped to the street, killing a Negro, the ten-story Hiram Walker Whiskey sign on the corner of Randolph Street and the Outer Drive, one of the biggest electric signs in the world, crashed in a mass of twisted steel and broken light bulbs. On the Great Lakes the 4,220-ton freighter William B. Dacock, ice-covered, was driven...
With his forward guns out of action, his steering gear gone, Captain Fegan had a hard time maneuvering to use his after guns. But with the wind he managed it, and with his ship in flames, his shredded arm dangling, he set out, when his after bridge was shot out from under him, for what was left of his main bridge...
...steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing turn...
...Raab recovered from his experiment. The symptoms he had experienced gave him added evidence for a new theory of angina pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms...