Word: glassfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Paul Douglas is justified in attacking the "pork barrel," but he picked a poor example. "Dramatically he whipped out a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and mockingly searched over a map of Maine for the Josias River, which was listed in the bill for a $33,000 dredging project. He couldn't find it" [TIME...
...Tall One. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Caroline Squire, suing for divorce, charged that her husband stepped out for a glass of beer on July 4, 1917 and had never come back...
What Father Couturier could do was partially demonstrated this week in a little church in the village of Assy, which celebrated the formal dedication of two handsome stained-glass windows, portraying Saints Veronica and Martha, by the famed contemporary French painter Georges Rouault. Father Couturier had conceived the idea and asked the artist to carry it out. But busy Dominican Couturier was not present at the ceremonies. He was talking to Painter Henri Matisse about the decoration of a chapel for nuns at Vence...
...compromise. His telescope has a concave spherical mirror, which is much easier to make than the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope. In front of it, to bring the light to a focus without "spherical aberration," is a correcting plate so slightly curved that it looks like plain sheet glass. The Schmidt telescope's advantage: it can take pictures of large patches of sky and have them turn out as sharp on the edges as in the center...
They live in a brick-glass, fluorescent-lighted palace with individual and family-size eages. When a biologist operates on them, an anaesthetist always stands by with a tankful of other. The rats lives are regulated according to the most scientific methods of bodily discipline...