Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Frankfurter, a nervous, hollow-eyed young Jew born in Yugoslavia, took the train from Berne last week to the Swiss winter sports resort of Davos. He did not go there to ski, and, though Davos boasts a fine meteorological observatory, he was not interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm...
...Smith, 62, with deeply silvered hair, his once full face already growing hollow with age, is a Conservative. Those who in 1928 mistook the fact that he was a Wet for the fiction that he was a Liberal, had long ago seen their error. To Al Smith the New Deal was a Strange Deal, full of Socialism, Radicalism, Communism. In Washington he stood up before the du Fonts and the Raskobs not to speak to them but to his party. He spoke not as the statesman of eight years ago but as the New Yorker of 30 years...
Owens-Illinois is also engaged in completing in Toledo the world's first glass house-a two-story structure built of hollow glass blocks. Scheduled for completion by February, it will be used as an Owens-Illinois research laboratory. The building is made up of 80,000 glass blocks, has 39 rooms. Because of the building material, no windows are necessary, and in solving the problem of the windowless structure, Owens-Illinois claimed that it had taken a long step forward in making air-conditioning practical. The glass house also contains another important Owens-Illinois product: spun glass...
...policies of the democratic republic in which he believed. An overwhelming proportion of the material power of the country was arrayed against him. The great media for the dissemination of information and the molding of public opinion fought him. Haughty and sterile intellectualism opposed him. Musty reaction disapproved him. Hollow and outworn traditionalism shook a trembling finger at him. It seemed that sometimes all were against him-all but the people of the United States...
From camouflaged amplifiers high over-head a hollow voice suddenly began to croak: Senator Gerald P. Nye was saying that as soon as the witnesses had been sworn, cameramen would please retire. Three white-thatched witnesses stood up. The amplifiers carried the clunk-clunk-clunk of cameras along with the words of the oath. Flashlamps flickered like heat lightning...