Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hangar thrown open for the first time in two years to the gaze of the curious, workmen plied torch and hacksaw upon the metal framework of a great, grotesque airplane last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...
...warning from Southern Drys, which helped only to advertise the gathering. The certain prospect of the kind of intraparty fight that only Democrats can stage drew throngs of spectators to the assembly. Senators, Representatives, National Committee members milled about in open anxiety. From the wall fell the stern gaze of Thomas Jefferson...
...males with shaveable beards. Only one-third of these are in the condition called "civilized." Hence a great majority of the world's male population is still a potential new market for razors. And in the U. S. alone every year, 400,000 youths gaze into a mirror and realize they have come of shaving age. For many a year Gillette Safety Razor Co., oldest in its field, has led all competitors in supplying existing markets, and in prying into new markets...
...Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther on, famed Meteor Crater, 600 ft. deep; the tiny boxes at the bottom are cabins of an expedition which has located, is digging up the meteorite. Farther on mesa dwellers, descendants of the original Hopi, gaze up from their doorways in the face of the earth at the winged monster on high. Beyond Kingman the plane crosses the Colorado River into California from where, if the day be clear, the passenger can see the lowest and highest points in the U. S.; Death Valley ( - 276 ft.) and Mt. Whitney...
Pick any squad at random. Number One, front rank, is a yearling, or second year man. Slowly his gaze sweeps up and down the crowd on the visitors" benches as far to the right and left as he can cut his eyes. That blonde in the red dress--no--gee, what terrible legs. He sighs and resumes his search. If he sees anything interesting he will call the attention of his classmate to his left. The femme in the green dress. Neat, but there must be something a little snappier in the crowd. There--three femmes and two cits...