Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Privacy in the Bathtub. Radar still has many limitations. Since it travels only in a straight line, it cannot "see" beyond the horizon. Because it cannot see through water or most solid obstructions, there is little chance that it will ever invade the privacy of four walls...
Resist any suggestion of illness. Look at some fixed position such as the horizon, if possible, and assure yourself that your body is fixed and perfect, but that the surroundings are acting up and should be disregarded...
Manhattan's Literary Guild snapped up James Hilton's So Well Remembered (Little, Brown; $2.50)-catching it on the fly to Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which...
...North. Then the U.S. fleet dropped over the horizon. Was that the end? Would Halsey hit again? Of course he would. But when & where? The enemy could only wait and wonder...
...will tell them more about the corona, the deflection of stars' light rays by the sun, the moon's "falling shadow" (which Professor Stewart's party was in a particularly good position to observe, because it saw the eclipse very soon after sunrise, low on the horizon...