Word: browses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One day last week the good people of Omaha mopped their brows under a temperature of 106°. For the tenth consecutive day their thermometers had registered more than 100°. In St. Louis hot weather history was made-with 110°. Vinita, Okla. topped that record with 117°...
Sweat on learned brows . . . the pick-and-shovel corps of Science toiling far afield... unearthing the bones of vanished animals, the relics of dead civilizations...bringing their treasures to bustling cities for common men to see in museums. Doings of diggers lately:
Brahmin women with diamonds in their noses and caste marks on their brows hastened decorously into Calcutta's criminal court last week. Their tawny husbands and friends, in Indian pantaloons or European trousers, packed along the walls. There they heard the public prosecutor declare that the murder of rich...
Cochran lit one cigaret after another while Layton, handling his cue with annoying deliberation, wiggling his pale eye brows with conscious archness, worked his score up to 7 before Cochran had made his first billiard. Twenty innings passed before Cochran could make two points in a row. Then he got...
Some of the ultra-conservative raise their eye-brows in silent horror at the open frankness of the chastisement.