Word: hollower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week newshawks were allowed to see him as he lay in striped pajamas on his sickbed. Hollow-eyed and pale, Ossietzky knew that if he got himself imprisoned again, it would be his death. He gave a buttery account of the gracious, paternal fashion in which the Government had looked after...
...Fitz-Gibbon solves the problem by taking a soft wax cast of the defective mouth. He makes a thin gold plate for the hard palate and a flattened, hollow gold bulb for the soft palate. He solders these together and anchors them to the upper teeth with lugs. When uttering words, the person who wears this device imperceptibly clenches his throat muscles. For practice he utters the word "giggle." This shuts off the upper pharynx. In inhaling, the throat is relaxed as in normal individuals...
...professionals, transcend thought of material gain in the motives of the true Professional Golfer. It is fundamental that the Professional Golfer must understand the basic principles upon which his profession is established; otherwise he cannot . . . work for the good of Golf." Last week this solemn creed was imputed a hollow mockery by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, which accused the Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association, PGA, President Jacobus and several other members of an unlawful and discriminatory monopoly of the golf ball business...
...country. Long Island is dotted with them from the Red Barn Theatre at Locust Valley to the John Drew Memorial Theatre at East Hampton. There are also the Starlight Theatre at Pawling, the Maverick Theatre at Woodstock, the Country Theatre at Suffern, the Reginald Goode Theatre at Clinton Hollow. Upstate and outstate the summer theatre season becomes even more substantial. At Ithaca performances will be given by summer students of Ithaca College and of Cornell's University Theatre. Union College at Schenectady is also very summer theatre-minded. Dixon Ryan Fox had just become president of Union three years...
Surging through the giant turbines of Boulder Dam, the Colorado River can now produce 1,240,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy per year which is piped 267 miles to Los Angeles over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...