Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wells for increased production proved TIME-worthy, is indeed gratifying [TIME, July 12]. Although the article differed from the major facts about as a daguerrotype does from television, your lay readers probably were interested in an industry that was merely a gleam in a chemist's eye five years ago and now grosses $5,000,000 a year. But, it must have been amusing to the oil fraternity, which is thoroughly familiar with acidizing as it is practiced today, and as portrayed in a bibliography of 114 published articles on the subject, 90% based on data supplied by Dowell...
Topsy-Turvy-For decades it appeared that New York City was created by a special dispensation of Providence for the benefit of the patriotic Society of St. Tammany. Tammany's serious troubles began in 1932 when the Democratic Governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt, with his eye on the Presidency was obliged to investigate charges of graft and corruption against Tammany's dapper, wisecracking mayor, Jimmy Walker. When the hearing got too hot, Jimmy Walker resigned. Automatically Joseph V. McKee, president of the city's Board of Aldermen succeeded to the job and made motions of starting...
...Tyler Dennett, who he recommended to Williams' trustees three years ago as earnestly as Tyler Dennett was recommending him. Trustee Baxter was salmon-fishing in his native Maine during the entire fuss. Plainspoken. loyal Friend Baxter immediately announced that in educational matters he and Tyler Dennett see eye-to-eye...
...nurses or doctors contract tuberculosis from their patients, that, in the eye of New York State's law, is their bad luck. This attitude reflects the fact that practically all human beings are infected at some time in their lives by the germs of tuberculosis; if the disease explodes in a nurse while she works in a special tuberculosis hospital, it is an accident of life, not an occupational damage...
...celestial figure of amorous Orion, has been a source of wonder and speculation to shepherds and seers since the dawn of history. Telescopes reveal thousands of stars in the cluster, moving away from Earth at six miles per second (present distance: nearly two quadrillion miles). To Babylonians the naked eye stars were ''The Many Little Ones," to American Indians "The Seven Brothers." In some folklore they are called "The Seven Who Now Are Six.'' as though an ancient memory persisted that the dim star, which can be seen only by keen eyes on clear nights...