Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much the pleasanter. For the home coming tourist is delayed far longer in his own harbor than in any foreign port at which he has landed. Not more rigid inspection, but merely less component maneuvers of government officials, mysterious and inscrutable, keep the Traveller alert for hours beneath the statue, his trip over, his baggage ready, his friends just beyond sight on the dock waiting. Perhaps a new wrist watch on high might record the wasted hours and remind the inspectors of the value of time...
Observers winked an eye reflecting upon the oil beneath the surface of Irak and remembering Colonel Amery's passionate insistence before the League Council that it should "request" Britain to conclude the treaty which continues the British regime in Irak for another quarter of a century (TIME, Dec. 28, THE LEAGUE...
...through study of current fiction in America reveals more and more those moments of reality. As the individual writer learns to see beneath his scene into reality, into that play of forces from which springs character, a stride is made toward the Promised Land of a real American literature...
...Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch ignition from a 1908 Rourain, Ford connecting rods, and beneath all, the chassis of a prehistoric Empress...
...Long Island City, a steam roller rumbled and puffed through the snowy streets. But it was a new kind of steam roller. Its front looked more like a big boiler, which did not weigh heavily on the ground but pressed against it, sending aloft clouds of fleecy steam. Beneath it ran rivulets of slush. Behind it lay a street cleared of its matted snow. It was a snow melter, invented by John B. Lodge of Beacon, N. Y. The steam drum could be heated to 2,000 Fahrenheit by crude oil under compression burned within...