Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only uncaptured kappa man was Mag, the philosopher, who was too ugly and stayed inside his house almost all the time reading books in a dusky room lighted by a seven-color glass lantern. When No. 23 congratulated him on his bachelorhood, Mag sighed, said wistfully: "It's quite natural that you don't see how we feel, because you are not a kappa. But occasionally I myself desire those dreadful she-kappa to run after...
While Amateur Astronomer Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
...Townsendites met in Washington's 5,000-seat Uline Arena. The meeting got off with a whoop when two exuberant ladies saw California's placid, lantern-jawed Dr. Townsend, the 80-year-old founder, entering the jammed hall. They jumped up and began to chant...
...half-light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
...Cincinnati's Crosley Field last week, Pitcher Schoolboy Rowe, a lantern-jawed giant of a man, was in trouble. He glanced around, mopped his brow with his fingers. Two Cincinnati players were on base, and a dangerous man was stepping up to bat. Schoolboy fired the ball in toward the plate...