Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply: "You'll get nothing out of me on that subject. Not a word! I've got a big enough job on my hands now. Every time I give an opinion on anything-tariff, taxes, the Mormon Church or pigsticking in Argentina- somebody says, 'Well the blink-blank! I'm against him. . . .' I've no intention of making a declaration on any question with which Congress does not have immediate concern." Partisan rowing later spread from House to Senate where New Hampshire's Moses sarcastically "marvelled at the moderation with which Mr. Garner...
...sits at a certain focal distance and angle from the screen, he can look through a stereoscope. Or he can hold a mechanical pair of lorgnettes before his eyes. The lorgnettes, which John Bellamy Taylor of General Electric used over 20 years ago, have shutters which rapidly and alternately blink the view of each eye. Viewing devices with special lenses, mirrors or prisms also permit stereoscopic effects. But each person in the audience must have a special pair for his seat...
...unusual brightening of darkness. He reminded U. S. stargazers that this year the Leonid meteor display will be the most brilliant since 1866. Star lovers who want to see the cosmic fireworks will have to stay up late during the first week of November, watch from midnight on without blinking. One blink may cause the watcher to miss a meteor which shines for less than 1 sec. Best astronomical advice is to keep an eye upon the constellation Leo (south of the Big Dipper) from which the darting points of light will seem to come...
...than had been the three-week ordeal. With their brothers Walter and Albert of the refueling plane, and Sister Irene who had cooked for them, and their 62-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Hunter, the flyers were whisked to a roof-bungalow atop the Hotel Sherman, there to blink at unaccustomed splendor, to listen-dazedly to the bickerings of a half-dozen self-ordained managers, to rehearse a few lines for their week's vaudeville engagement, to try and reckon their rewards. Having reduced their expectations from $200,000 to half that sum, the Hunter family last week could...
...them, Sailor Burren, Joe Elvin, are waiting to be hanged. Finally the 120 days are up: Blink and Tully are released, go their separate ways...