Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around the lizards' cage. They gaped at the mottled grey hides, tough and beaded as an Indian bag. They blinked at the great red mouths and serrated teeth, the long forked yellow tongues flicking in & out like a snake's. They shuddered at the wicked claws, long and sharp as a good-sized leopard's. Well might New Yorkers gape, blink, shudder. To most of them a lizard was a six-inch creature which eats flies and scuttles under leaves. These lizards were 9 ft. long...
...road outside Faribault, Minn., one night last week Walter Magee, St. Paul contractor, saw automobile headlights blink four times. He stopped his car, lifted out two cardboard boxes full of money and drove off leaving them in the middle of the highway. To the stack of cash was attached a note...
...Hanford, Dean"--such is the way that countless formidable-looking bulletins, memoranda, and communiques from University Hall are signed. No title is so curt, nor so instantaneously effective, and consequently when the eye beholds it, that eye will almost automatically shudder and blink twice. Back of the door, in "University 4," uninvitingly marked "Dean of Harvard College," though, there sits a kindly gentle enough looking man who will spring up at once when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than...
Having turned her back on the political inferences of the War, America was not slow to blink at the economic conclusions. Having served as quartermaster of the world throughout four years of tremendous drain and demand, America had developed her industry far beyond any normal need, and had so increased her fixed charges that she was dependent for her profits on the marginal percentage of goods which went abroad. The logical fact to be derived from this would seem to be that since America could not be economically independent of Europe, America should not try to make herself independent...
...When an eyelid is damaged by injury or disease it can be mended satisfactorily by grafting a bit of skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...