Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying out the new spittoons. First job for the House was to elect Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns to be Speaker. vice Henry T. Rainey, deceased. They did it with a cheer (see below). Their next job was to change their rules. They did it without blinking an eye (see below...
...Francisco, Calif., Nazzareno Tinti was sentenced to life imprisonment after confessing to the murder of John Pavia. At trial's end Widow Pavia rose from counsel's table to find herself face-to-face with Wife Tinti. ''An eye for an eye," screamed the widow, "a tooth for a tooth." Then abruptly she slumped, sobbing, into the other's arms. 'I am sorry. I am sorry." moaned the wife. Closely embraced, widow and wife wept together...
Last week International and Acme were giving Wirephoto as hot a race as they could by airplane delivery, watching it with an eye to joining in a competitive wire operation if necessary. Hearst was reported to be experimenting with an invention to transmit not photographs but engraved cuts, all ready for printing...
...degree angle, is reflected to a "light valve." Inside the valve is a shutter which vibrates 2,400 times per second-faster than a humming bird's wings. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye")- There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10.000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...
Nash redesigned its three lines with an eye to riding quality, shoving the motor ahead and synchronizing springs. Standard on the Ambassador but optional on its other lines is what Nash calls a "Santa Claus gear-because it delivers something for nothing." The Santa Claus gear is an overdrive for high-speed cruising...