Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report summarizes the accomplishments of more than 150,000 projects up to Oct. 1, 1937. Visible to the naked eye were 11,106 new public buildings (including 115 new armories), 43,870 miles of new highways, 19,272 new bridges, more than 11,500 miles of new roadside drainage ditches and 54,244 drawings, easel paintings, murals and sculptured works. Not so obvious were 128,057,654 school lunches served, 18,272,529 books catalogued and 24,099,607 rodents destroyed...
...pretty well taken care of by Chandler Hovey now, but Pete Goodwin has a chance and Pete Richards has been working overtime all winter in the tank, with an eye on this oar. The bow seat is wide open with at least six possibilities of almost equal ability. This is easily the most uncertain position in the boat. Dick Ninde probably leads here if anyone does but he is closely pursued by Dave Scull, Henry Locke and Sophomore Bayard Dillingham. Perhaps less likely are John Rowe and John Bremer also of last season's Freshmen...
...said by the Japanese to be Soviet planes) finally flew across the 120-mile-wide Formosa Strait, escorted by pursuit planes, and rained bombs on Japanese-owned Formosa. They flew so high that accurate bombing was impossible. From the ground the attacking craft could be seen with the naked eye only as minute specks. Eight were killed, 29 wounded. Property damage was small...
Died. Gabriele d'Annunzio ("The Archangel Gabriel"), 74, great Italian poet, patriot, lover, soldier and mystic; of a brain hemorrhage; at his fortified Villa Vittoriale on Lake Garda. He lost an eye as a war-time aviator, created an international crisis after the Armistice by seizing the Austrian seaport of Fiume, which he held for four months. Supposedly a great & good friend of Benito Mussolini, who made him Prince of Montenevoso and President of the Royal Academy, bald, brooding d'Annunzio lived as a virtual prisoner, year ago melodramatically announced that he planned to dissolve himself in acid...
...Africa, a restrained, formalized book, which has little in common with her first book, Author Dinesen writes of the African landscape, its animals and people with the eye of a painter and a novelist: "The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent." The natives ("they were afraid of us more in the manner in which...