Word: eyewink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jovial, blue-eyed gentleman who was a dirt farmer before he studied law at Georgetown, the Board took its secrets into a room high up in the Agriculture building, locked itself in until its tabulations were completed and its guesses made. Frosted glass windows prevented so much as an eyewink to the outside world. In the centre of another room six or eight newshawks stood in a chalked square, waiting. Finally Mr. Callander emerged, placed mimeographed copies of his mystical figures face downward on tables with telephones, and, full of excitement, cried, "Get ready?go!" The newshawks leaped...
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