Word: saucer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most Bostonians, Massachusetts' legal holiday on April 19 is better known as the day of The Marathon than the anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. For parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great...
...Culinary processes will be carried out in one electrically heated vessel of some light alloy which will serve as a saucepan for boiling water and frying pan for cooking any meat permitted. Each astronaut will be allowed one cup (but no saucer), one plate and one spoon, and a knife and fork might also be taken to be passed around from hand to hand...
...only fair to warn all men to beware of the long, shiny things hanging from the roofs of the classroom buildings. Harvard Hall has the undisputed blue-ribbon icicle of the Yard. It measures a good three feet from tip to tip, and tapers from a saucer-like beginning down to a needle-sharp nonentity. At precisely the stroke of eleven o'clock this morning, a neighbor of this glistening giant gave one sickening shudder and came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed...
...last fortnight, when the French Academy elected its latest "immortal," the usual storm in a teacup overflowed into the saucer. Successful candidate was 70-year-old, deaf, withered Charles Maurras, expert on Provengal dialect, author of innumerable, little-read novels, poems, philosophical and political studies. Maurras' election precipitated a scandal, not because he was a worse writer than several other "immortals," but because his election marks the most stinging slap in the face that the Republic has yet taken from French Royalists. Royalists dominate the Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back...
...usual, an advance guard of several hundred swallows winged in from the ocean, circled the Mission, flew back to sea. Happy at that yearly signal were the Mission brothers engaged in digging and watering a big mudhole from which the birds would draw material to repair their hard-baked, saucer-shaped nests. Next dawn a crowd gathered on the Mission grounds, all eyes peering out to sea. Sure enough, sharp at 5:56 a. m., 40 minutes after sunrise, a lowering cloud appeared on the horizon, grew bigger and bigger until it all but blotted out the Mission sunlight, making...