Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electron, of micro-amperes, and the cathode rays. The properties of radium and uranium with their mysterious emanations, which man is as yet totally unable to control, will also be discussed at length and a demonstration will be offered of the versatility of vacuum tubes as the electric eye, the electric ear, and the electric touch...
...gone into research, loathed the small-town society to which he felt condemned. Lixlee was an ignorant, half-savage backwoods girl whom well-meaning Anna had "rescued"' and started off as a maid-of-all-work. Lixlee was a natural born maneater. Having a slight cast in one eye. her direct gaze (which she rarely unleashed) had a disturbingly hypnotic effect, especially on men. She knocked Anson over with the first glance. Married to Lixlee and enjoying a completely pagan nightlife, he perked up considerably. One night, because he had to tear himself from her arms...
...takes showmanship nowadays to keep even so great an orchestra as the Philadelphia Symphony afloat. But showman-ship is just what Conductor Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...
Life in the Law School is a three-years monotony. The wretched slavey in Langdell Hall, with his green eye-shade, green book bag, and unhealthy green face has much need of comic relief. This he frequently gets from the mock arguments of the law club tournaments. The embryonic lawyer, gets all the laughs out of the arguments which he writes into his brief, no more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following...
...Although France alone can prevent important revisions of the Versailles Treaty in the League Council by making use of the unanimity rule, she has always been able to justify her position in the public eye by mustering to her support the smaller powers which depend for their very existence upon a preservation of the status quo. In the eyes of the World, France naturally is in a more favorable position as one of several nations opposing revision rather than as a single power refusing to be budged from the top of the pile. It is the necessarily stand-pat atmosphere...