Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revealing one of Mr. Fokker's hobbies: "Not long ago he indulged his taste for air photography while we were making a survey of possible air routes in Florida. During the whole of a flight over the Everglades, from Fort Myers to Miami, Mr. Fokker kept a sharp lookout for alligators. Whenever he saw a group of them, we swooped down over the swampland and Mr. Fokker ground away at his motion picture camera...
...shortened season would mean that the excitement would mount up over four games instead of eight, and so would be less than it is now by about 40 per cent., especially since the public and the papers would have no national or intersectional championship to be on the lookout...
...Chattanooga, 115 leading citizens headed by Adolph S. Ochs contributed $1,000 apiece, founded an association to buy the eastern and western slopes of Lookout Mountain (the top is now covered with homes) and turn it into the "Chattanooga Lookout Mountain Park...
...which are atavistic, including the muscles which sometimes can move the ears, the muscles that make hair stand on end, the appendix (which in herbivorous animals is important in digestion), the pineal gland in the top of the head where the first amphibians had an eye (probably as a lookout when they" were half buried in the mud). 3) Paleontology (the fossil record). This is the least complete evidence in man's evolution-much less complete than in some other animals, such as the horse. But man's development has been rapid and recent compared to the millions...
...scandalously good, so good, in fact, that it should be read behind drawn shades and with a watcher posted outside on lookout for the police...