Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With an eye to the future, Burke's are printing at the end of their new Landed Gentry a second section tactfully entitled Dislanded Gentry. Eventually, as more & more estates have to be sold, the second section is expected to eclipse the first, but Burke's will go publishing...
...greeks thought they had seen the goddess Aphrodite rise out of the sea foam (Aphros). Johannes Walther, professor of Geology & Paleontology of Halle University, Saxony, tells of having seen a visible phenomenon off the coast of Greece that might well have seemed a sea-rising Aphrodite to an unscientific eye. Writing lately in the scientific magazine Forschungen und Fortschritte, he described a day in Grecian waters when a snowstorm was gathering and the waves were high. As cold air struck the warm water, columns of white vapor rose from the sea. They were held suspended for a moment, then whirled...
...public investigation Assistant District Attorney Martin Wilson ("Bill") Littleton Jr., son of the famed lawyer, revealed he had warned the police: "No third degree. One black eye might ruin a first-degree murder case...
...instrument that it records even the heatwaves of another ship, a smokestack, an airplane, many miles away; the heat of a man's face a mile away. It not only registers heat waves, but differences of temperature in itself. At night, or in a fog. the electric eye sweeps the horizon. When it encounters an iceberg it loses heat. This loss of heat is recorded, the position of the iceberg determined. Now Macneil is trying to make it record even the infra-red rays from the stars, to chart a ship's position at night...
...some not too ancient mariner. New Author Walmsley's book will enthrall the large audience due to come its way. It speaks of fishermen's lives at Bramblewick, a tiny hamlet on the English North Sea coast. Heroes of the tale are the Lunns, who keep a weather eye out for any new chance to catch a living that the varying sea affords, keep a jealous friendly eye on the size of their rivals', the Fosdyck's, hauls. Villains of the tale are the stormy, treacherous North Sea, and the Bramblewick harbor entrance, a narrow passage between two "scaurs" (reefs...