Word: stray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better Head Lamp. After four years of joint research, a group of auto headlamp manufacturers has produced a brighter, sealed-beam lamp, with redesigned lens and hooded filament that throw the beam more to the right side of the road and screen out stray lights above the beam pattern. The new sealed-beam unit fits current models. Price: about...
Except here and there a stray picket...
...Giles Hoffman, 58, who zoomed in New Jersey's political firmament as a Republican Congressman (1927-31) and governor (1935-37), then, fizzled like a spent skyrocket; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With an ambitious eye on the Republican presidential nomination in 1936, Hoffman let his vision stray to the Lindbergh kidnaping case. Bruno Richard Hauptmann stood convicted of the crime, but Hoffman, insisting that he sought justice for Hauptmann and not publicity for himself, impoliticly tried to reopen the case. He died awaiting justice for himself, under suspension as New Jersey's employment-security director since...
...after graduating from Columbia Medical School in 1916. Ferry also found time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head of a mule standing next to him, and stopped only when it hit a pack of cigarettes in a sergeant's pocket...
...sole hiring-and-firing powers and let other committee members have a say in staff employment, 2) permit the Democrats to have a minority counsel and clerk, 3) allow the Democrats to block public hearings by their own unanimous vote, unless overruled by the parent Government Operations Committee. The stray lambs, Senators John McClellan, Henry Jackson and Stuart Symington, agreed to rejoin the committee. Said Joe: "I was glad-strike the word glad-happy to compromise...