Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beating, reasoned Dr. Hyman. perhaps the application of a commensurate current might jog a stopped heart. With the help of electrical engineers he rigged up a small generator which produces 40 to 120 impulses a minute. The current goes through a 5-in. gold-plated needle. The needle is hollow. Down its bore, carefully insulated, passes a wire to the open tip. The wire forms one contact point, the sheath another, for the tickling passage of the electricity...
...genuine desire to uplift youth and help it traverse as painlessly as possible, the rocky path of adolescence. The editors plead and beg on bended knee for a little more seemliness in campus dress, and the campus goes on oblivious to all criticism, leaving them to listen to the hollow trumpeting of the nation's press. After all, the News belongs to the student body and they should, by rights, pay some attention to it. We do not write our editorials with an eye to how they will look on the front pages of the world's newspapers; the editorials...
Some years ago Mr. Mikimoto bought a prominent hill and dreamed of erecting on it a hollow tower which he proposed to fill with pearls as a farmer fills an elevator with grain. "My reason," Mr. Mikimoto used to say, "is to give pleasure to women of generations yet unborn who will wear pearls from my tower-Mikimoto pearls...
Most Republicans have politely endured the analytical thrusts of the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann at Herbert Hoover only because Pundit Lippmann has been equally severe upon Governor Roosevelt. He has called the Democratic nominee "hollow, synthetic, a pleasant man who. without any important qualifications, would very much like to be President." Last week Pundit Lippmann swallowed his words and in the Hoover-rooting Herald Tribune plumped for the Democratic nominee. Excerpts from his reasons...
...tore down the creek bed. Houses were knocked topsy-turvy by great boulders, signals were cracked from their bases. The sided train was lifted from the tracks, its freight cars hurled in all directions, its locomotive smashed sidelong into a huge rock. Tracks were flung about, the roadbed scooped hollow. At the foot of the canyon motor cars were submerged. The leaping waters enveloped a service station and everybody near...