Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diversion Fred Snite has adjustable mirrors rigged over his upturned face. These enable him to read, play games and to see his meals when they are placed on a table immediately back of his head. When a page of print is laid with its top at his hair, two mirrors enable him to read precisely as though the type were directly before his eyes. A single mirror turns the type upside down for him, but like a printer he can read it that way, too, with great facility. Another new accomplishment: he speaks Chinese...
...paper from the front porch, irrevocably canceled his subscription, saying that in a vain attempt to make good on the enormous issue the dog had torn it to ribbons and then died of a broken heart. Seriously, papers of 350 pages or more are too big to be read at one sitting. . . . For this reason we have taken a leaf from the technique of luxury-train dispatchers, and have 'made up' in two sections, identical in circulation coverage...
Last week the world's most celebrated aviator delivered himself on the subject which most aviators consider the world's greatest joke. Wrote Charles Augustus Lindbergh in a letter which was read aloud by Clark University's President Wallace Walter Atwood at graduation ceremonies in Worcester, Mass.: "Clark University is taking part in a project which may have far-reaching effects on the future of civilization. For many years a member of the staff, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, has been experimenting with rockets...
This year's Bawl Street Journal, annual Manhattan Bond Club parody of the marmoreal Wall Street Journal, tried hard last week to keep its cracks aimed below Canal Street. But its 14,000 Wall Street-wise chuckled most over an advertisement which read: "DEAL WITH US: No Restrictions, No Holds Barred, No Legal Opinions, No Balance Sheet, No Income Account: U. S. GOV'T BOND DEPARTMENT...
Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed...