Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King George was not in his castle, neither was Queen Mary. But the stately royal pile, begun by William the Conqueror, held them spellbound as they paused to gaze at it. And even after the order to march had been given necks were craned to take just one last look...
...Raskob's banquet he said: "Installment selling has increased production, stabilized output, reduced production cost and increased purchasing power. The installment plan induces the consumer to look ahead with greater care and to plan his economic program with a higher degree of intelligence. It not only tends to strengthen the motives which induce an individual to pay, but also influences his capacity...
...expert analysts, feature writers, and photographers; with the coaching staff and retainers of each side numbering scores of men, any movement, any word uttered, any picture published, is apt to result in a violation of the spirit at least of the agreement. Under the circumstances, a football coach cannot look at a newspaper, he cannot talk to friends, he cannot read his mail, for fear of finding out something about the opposing team. The mere presence of a Harvard man at Yale during the fall is enough to cause ugly rumours, and indeed such rumours have evidently been heard...
There is a college president who will get fired if his institution loses its objective game of the football season, and a football team which plays because a woman's eyes are bright, and a Palm-olive halfback who wears an assumed name and a mean look and recovers a jumble and makes a touchdown, and saves the game, and the woman, while the audience holds everything in suspense...
King George V's Physician Extraordinary, Edward Farquhar Buzzard, in London last week, took "the courage of my profession in my two hands" and warned religious faith healers not to interfere with mental hygiene efforts. Said he, a neurologist: "We [doctors] make no claim to cure disease. I look forward to a day when the church will have courage to say that it makes no claim to spiritual healing...