Word: combe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brush your teeth, comb your hair, hurry to bed, say your prayer, and before you know it I will be there. This year "Tourate" telegrams have been introduced, which grant a low wordage charge on messages containing strictly travel information. Postal Telegraph in most cases has duplicated Western Union's special message arrangements, but last week had no intention of trying to match Western Union's football service. Parents, friends and rooters may have delivered to any locker room in the country any of the following inspiring sentiments...
...While the boy Cupid snatches honey from the comb, a predatory bee stings his finger. So does the short and transitory delight which we pursue bring us woe for it is interwoven with sorrow and pain...
...laboratory practice, a light beam's "fence" is a crystal, and the gaps which comb light are a crystal's parallel planes of cleavage. Polaroid is a suspension of crystals. The dazzling headlights at last week's demonstration were dimmed because the Polaroid in the lenses and in the windshield was aligned in conflicting directions. The light could thus pass through one but not through both...
...other states had done likewise, but Governor Landon promptly got to a radio microphone, called the nation's attention to Kansas. Alert for a man who might put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House. William Randolph Hearst sent a flying squad of investigators into Kansas to comb Alf Landon's private and public record. Reporting satisfactorily, they were followed by a flock of ace Hearst writers and the great Landon Boom...
...thousand sleuths could comb the town...