Word: inspecting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard's watchdog is the alumni elected Board of Overseers. Overseer visiting committees are the only outside groups that regularly inspect all sections of the University. Whenever a serious protest arise, over the de-emphasis of Geography for example, it is the Board of Overseers that investigation...
...fear affects the human body, Poole had a scientist toss a king snake at a woman who had been wired for reaction; the audiometer recorded her leaping heartbeats. Another night, X rays were taken of a woman's lungs, developed and held up for the TV audience to inspect. Review viewers have seen how polluted water looks under a microscope, how plastics are made, chemists trained, and atoms frozen...
...This is your regiment-you inspect it," said King George VI to Queen Elizabeth when they went to see a battalion of the Black Watch in 1939. That the royal remark was not a nrere passing-of-the-buck due to occupational fatigue was certified by two facts: 1) the Queen of England is the colonel in chief of the Black Watch, and 2) no Briton, king or commoner, could ever be too tired to inspect one of the most famous and glamorous outfits in British army annals...
...Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
Southern Exposure (by Owen Crump; produced by Margo Jones, Tad Adoue & Manning Gurian) begins as a barn-door-broad spoof of those who inhabit and those who inspect the mortgaged old mansions of Natchez. Leading chatelaine-and character-is Penelope Mayweather (Betty Greene Little), a spinster who when not fluttering like a bird is secretly drinking like a fish. After a while the play shifts to farcical romance between an engaged Natchez belle and an enraged Yankee writer whose book Natchez has banned. But the satire keeps on recurring with the monotonous regularity of a lone rider on a merry...