Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widespread innovation for 1940 are the Sealed-Beam headlights on 95% of the models (result of cooperation between the industry, lamp & lens manufacturers). Lens, bulb and reflector are sealed into a single unit. The new lamps light the road without blinding. Another big development is the "Hydra-Matic" drive (see Oldsmobile), which dooms the clutch pedal, lets the accelerator control...
...week's end came a trumpeting cable from Biarritz, France, to Prince's New York office. Deny that rumor! He was in excellent health. He would be home in a month to see about this. Armour stockholders were set to wondering whether this January there would be another meeting as rowdy as that famous one in 1934 when Prince, who had bought up effective (5%) control of the stock, first landed the chairmanship...
...Maiden, Mass., Donald W. Lovett pummeled a motor vehicle inspector who stopped him and asked to see his driving license. Explained Driver Lovett to the court: "He didn't say please...
...work of the Creel Committee was well absorbed by most U. S. citizens-the younger generation, it has been said, never quite recovered. Not easily forgotten were the Creel Committee's Halt the Hun posters, with their spidery villains; its movies, with riotous queues fighting to see that gory thriller, The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin; its 75,000 spellbinding Four-Minute Men; its Red, White and Blue pamphlets, in which famed history professors rewrote German history; its National School Service (circulation: 20,000,000 homes); its syndicated news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories...
...resembles the hero of The Asiatics in his magic immunity from hunger, accident, fatigue. When Tom loses Lucy he knows he'll see her again simply because Lucy is going to Texas, too. A pursued gangster gives him a ride in a big, black Hudson; he lives on an occasional hamburger, sleeps happily in thickets, in barns, on lawns. The little towns of the Midwest, the hitchhikers, lunchroom girls, farmers, high school kids, old people, down-and-outers, all pass by in Prokosch's limpid prose, phantasmagoria hauntingly created but incredible in a landscape sensuously seen, smelt...