Word: mouthing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Below, cities and countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...
...best obituary came from his own mouth. Nearing 90, he was asked how he had lived so soundly. He mentioned his exercises (rowing had been his favorite), his moderate diet, and his temperament. The temperament was "a calm temperament, expectant of good...
White-necked, white-handed coal miners have ceased to be anomalous in Britain, for the coal strike, bringing leisure for ablution, has lasted through the summer (TIME, May 10 et seq.). With one million miners still on strike, with their four million dependents living on hand-to-mouth doles, with British production at last seriously curtailed by lack of coal, a conference was held last week between miners and owners. Britain waited expectant while President Evan Williams of the Mine Owners' Association conferred directly for the first time since June with President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation...
Last week dentists who specialize in making twisted teeth align with normal teeth in a patient's mouth met at Manhattan. They constituted the First International Orthodontic Congress. Simultaneously, at Philadelphia, the National Society of Dental Prosthetists was in annual session. Its members are dentists who specialize in making plates, bridges and like artificial dentures. Orthodontists. Six hundred, including nearly all the 450 in the U.S., convened from 15 nations. They heard-that orthodontia lies at the basis of the science of dentistry (Dr. Augustus S. Downing of Albany, N. Y.); that universities are now recognizing orthodontia...
...perceives, but plays out her role. An Arkansas stonecutter, cuckold, is reluctantly driven to revenge by public opinion; his joy is great when he finds that the couple he has strangled in the dark are strangers. A Louisiana farmer, despairing of love from his mail-order wife, puts his mouth over the muzzle of his shotgun. A fading saleswoman sees a bearded lover watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib...