Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus far astronomers have determined its brightness to be of the ninth magnitude, just beyond sight of the naked eye, have charted its position and the comparatively rapid rate at which it moves across the heavens...
...authors of Red, Hot and Blue may have slipped, but the performers manage to hold the altitude of their past achievements. As "Nails" Duquesne, a rough female diamond who thinks that a man with two wives is committing bigotry, Ethel Merman lifts a brazen voice, rolls a comic eye. Roly-poly Bob Hope (Roberta} is coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior...
...Charles W. Heath of Sioux City was granted a patent on a "submarine eye" for hunting sunken treasure. Essential feature is a television transmitter which will examine the sea floor, send pictures of what it sees to a screen on board the boat...
...Give My Life" is pure melodrama at the end of which there should not be a dry eye in the audience. Tom Brown and Francis Drake are two love-birds who work in a gangsters' nigh-club. Comes a reform governor who cracks down on the underworld, and in self-defense the gangster suddenly reveals that Tom is his son, and that Tom's mother, believing him dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell...
...technique of photographing game birds in flight, especially ducks and geese, which is better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will recognize Photographer Simmons' teal, duck and goose action close-ups as the result of shrewd and patient hunting...