Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover's face was burned a deep red by sea-wind and sun. On his hands were blisters, calliouses...
...bill on which the Senate was trying to act was, on its face, quite simple. As passed by the House it authorized the Navy Department to build five cruisers each year for the next three years, and one small aircraft carrier. The total cost of this program was estimated at $274,000,000. The cruisers would have a displacement of 10,000 tons each, as permitted in unlimited numbers by the disarmament treaty of 1922. Each cruiser, armed and ready for battle, would represent an investment of $17,000,000. The Navy has argued that it needs this new auxiliary...
...began to dictate copious notes to Sir Godfrey Thomas. Apparently he plans to place con crete names and figures before his next radio audience. As the third day wore on, as he slopped down street after street and peered into hovel after hovel, the Prince's face hardened, greyed. "This is ghastly 1" he ejaculated frequently to Sir Godfrey. "I never thought things were so bad. A ghastly mess...
...Moon stared coldly down at Long Island last week, Elinor Smith, slim and 17, flew past his pock-marked face. His expression did not change. She whirled her biplane - a Brunner-Winkle Bird - and flew past him again, again, again. She was willing to do that all night, for she was trying for a new woman's solo record. The old record, made by one Bobby Trout on New Year's Day in California, was 12 hr., n min. After several hours, Miss Smith began to sing - every song she could remember. That was not insouciance...
...ordinary amount of sunlight is practically never a cause of cancer. A cancer may develop from burns on the skin by the sunlight but at any stage before the cancer stage is reached, the progress of the affliction may easily be halted. The brown spots that come on the face or neck of farmers or any one who is exposed much to the sun, wind and rain may ultimately become cancers, but not at all necessarily so. They quite often are allowed to go neglected until they form a wart or a raised and rough portion of the skin. This...