Word: gaze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the fire was extinguished Mr. Bennett had dissuaded his irate attorney from having Lawyer Powers arrested and soon brought back the proxies. Lawyer Carney cooled less quickly. "I suppose you don't call that evidence," said he, exposing his bruised shin to Mr. Powers' complacent gaze...
...priest who was handling the little coppers as merrily and as diligently as the best of them. The biologist began to suspect a Moonface Munn and wondered if that collar was really continuous or merely put on backwards. The ecclesiastic looked up from his unholy rites met the challenging gaze of the interloper and smiled sheepishly. The biologist felt his fears confirmed...
...difficult to conceive of any injury at all resulting from obedience to the [Senate] subpoena unless the complainant has sent messages of such a type that they should not be entitled to protection by any court. ... In no instance has a Congressional investigation ever held up to the public gaze documents of a private and personal nature." The Senate, argued its hireling, is the sole judge of its own subpoenas, is not subject to interference from the courts. There might be, Mr. Harris suggested, a "very unseemly and unfortunate conflict" if the Court enjoined Western Union from delivering the telegrams...
...fact that when the human eye moves it generates a slight electric current, invented a metre which bridges the face from temple to temple, makes a record of eye movements. They found that a subject moves his eyes about five times while reading a line of print, keeps his gaze fixed when shaking his head, moves his eyes before he moves his head when looking to the side...
...Snark, on the which we might lovingly gaze...