Word: socket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curve of the nasal bone. To get the fullness of the cheeks he held a pencil from the cheekbone down to the jawbone and allowed a little for normal rounding. He used the same instrument to determine the set of the eyes, holding it slantwise from the eye socket to the cheekbone. (If you do this to yourself, you will find it leaves just enough room for the eyelashes to brush against the pencil...
...World-Telegram's Sportswriter Walker Stewart, on hand to interview Fisticutter Max Schmeling: "There was a little man with starved cheeks who was being booted down the deck. . . . Four sailors were driving the little man. . . . One of them had twisted his left arm until it cracked in the socket...
...trick is really very simple. The pole (probably not the one originally exhibited) has a strong metal core, and fits solidly into a socket in the ground. Onto its upper end, through the folds of the elaborate knot, is rigidly attached a horizontal iron rod, which passes under the Yogi's arm to the upper side of his body, and from the end of which he is suspended by means of some sort of harness around his body. The rod is concealed by his half-closed hand and voluminous, wrist-length sleeves...
...unintelligible structure of wires, metal joints, cans, an electric light socket, stove pipe and cellophane stood in the centre of the gallery, labeled Man of Manhattan by Pietro Lazzari. Ebbitt A. Levitz' Evolution of Crime showed a foreshortened dead man and, surrounding it, the story of how he got that way, beginning with a visit to a burlesque show. John A. Mapes, investment broker, contributed a delightful Bar Panel, The Fishing Party, showing Father Neptune and mermaids tugging from sea bottom on the line of a fishing boat at the top of the composition. Heightening the picture...
...hands. His crowning achievement was an $8.75 Lifetime pen, introduced in 1921. It was the first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than...