Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assemblyman, F. Trubee Davison. He is not of the ordinary run of local politician. No indeed. He is in politics more after the old British fashion?by which a distinguished family sends one of its sons into public life. What is more, he is able. He ought to be. Look at his father...
...Stepney Borough Council (London) decided that certain Limehouse slums must go. The Condemnation Commissioner went to have a look at the squalor-stricken old houses, where finnan haddie has been smoked for the past 150 years. He was met with a storm of opposition. Nobody wanted nice, new, sanitary homes, not even the large families sleeping six and more in a bedroom. "How would our homer pigeons find their way back?" they asked. "Could fish be cured on stone landings ?" "Could wireless aerials be strung across asphalt courtyards?" Limehouse now has its blues...
...times smaller. So while you might distinguish the orbit, its planet [electron] and sun [nucleus] would still be nearly invisible. In other words, practically all of the hydrogen atom is apparently space . ." .as empty as the sky, almost as empty as a perfect vacuum. . . . Atoms begin to look like solar and planetary systems with different groups of positive and negative charges at their centres...
...Carmelite Sisters, Louvain, Belgium, the bread and wine became sacred elements of the body of Our Lord. The priest-saying his first mass-was Count Claude Delbee, one-time officer in the army of the King of the Belgians. To his former wife, the Countess, he gave the wafer, looked upon her, never to look again...
...Sounds like a big mosquito," grumbled the other. Realizing that their bivouac was near the route of the New York-Chicago Night Air Mail, she sat up to look, but even as she stared into the vague heavens, the buzzing stopped, the eye winked and began to circle lower and lower until it came to rest at the other end of the field...