Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yates muttered something back. Both men swung fists, missed. Bystanders leaped to part them. The combatants wrenched loose, sailed into each other. It was all over in a minute. His face bruised, bleeding over one eye, Yates was assisted to a first-aid station. Capitol police trotted uninjured Allen off to the Senate's detention room, from which he was shortly released...
McIntyre: . . . Floating for an instant in the public eye like a smoke ring and sifting apart...
Already the New Deal had done something for The Unemployed, for Farmers, for Labor, for Business, for Railroads, for Homeowners, for Bank Depositors, for Investors. Last week its roving eye uncovered a new category. "I have determined," announced President Roosevelt, "that we shall do something for the nation's unemployed Youth...
...cumbersome, slow affair which weighed some 250 lb. per horsepower, had a top-speed of 500 r. p. m. But heavy or light, slow or fast, it was still the most efficient engine in the world. Mr. Cummins set about making the Diesel engine lighter, faster, kept an eye cocked on Europe and its Diesel-powered vehicles...
...stop when the commission arrived at the front. A twelve-day truce was to be extended again & again as required. Armistice begins when the armies withdraw to their assigned positions, begin to demobilize to 5,000 men apiece, while the neutral commission patrols the strip between. Meanwhile, under the eye of the neutral peace conference, Bolivia and Paraguay will try again to settle their territorial argument by talk. Assuming that they fail again, the controversy will automatically go for arbitration to the World Court...