Word: slantingly
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...Brooklyn) Smith was in a hospital nursing 37 stitches in her face after an auto crash near Louisburg, N.C. Old New Dealer Paul Porter, now director of economic affairs for the MSA office in Paris, was reported "fine" after an emergency appendectomy which broke up a dinner party. Slant-eyed Actress Veronica Lake had to cancel a summer-theater engagement in Framingham, Mass. because of a slight virus infection. Mrs. Johnnie Ray, bride of the cry-baby singer, left her husband on tour and went to a Buffalo hospital for a pneumonia cure. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. was nursing...
Working over several dry seasons, Ruz and a gang of laborers slowly cleared away the hard mass of stone and clay that blocked the passageway. The stairs seemed to slant down endlessly. At the 46th step there was a landing from which two galleries, also blocked, led to the sides of the pyramid. They were apparently intended to supply ventilation...
Last week the National Bureau of Standards was proclaiming that high-frequency waves do reflect from the ionosphere and can get around the earth's curve. The bureau got the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to slant a powerful beam of 49.8 megacycle waves into the air in the direction of its own Radio Laboratory at Sterling, Va. The distance between transmitter and receiver is about 800 miles, so the signal might be expected to come through only in freakish bursts...
This tiny department, headed by Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, has in the last few years become increasingly oriented toward the study of modern India, but even today it still has a long way to go. Ingalls himself says that a contemporary slant on the field is still more or less of a hope...
...helped Hecht to found the Chicago Literary Times, an irreverent journal that described Chicago as "the jazz baby-the reeking, cinder-ridden, joyous Baptist stronghold . . . the chewing-gum center of the world, the bleating, slant-headed rendezvous of half-witted newspapers, sociopaths and pants makers." He headed east to Greenwich Village in the 1920s...