Word: warn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they succeed, as Joyce succeeded in Ulysses, in enabling the author to state truths that could not be expressed in a traditional form, they encourage a thousand writers to work in the same field. When they fail, as Wyndham Lewis failed in The Childermass, the unread wreckage serves to warn later writers away from that intellectual reef...
Died. John L. Baker, 64, who 47 years ago saw the South Fork Dam crumble, galloped a mile down the valley to warn inhabitants of the approaching Johnstown Flood; of leg injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile; in Windber, Pa. Died, Samuel E. Hill, 70, onetime traveling salesman who 38 years ago in Boscobel, Wis., with John H. Nicholson, laid the foundation for the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association (Gideons); of heart disease; in Beloit,Wis. (seep...
...night driving a motorist's eyes become so sensitized to the white stripe painted down the middle of many highways that he follows it automatically, is thus likely to be drawn into intersectional crashes. The doctor suggested that there should be a signal to the eye which would warn the brain of an intersection ahead. Last week, Engineer Dorsey's idea of a good signal was amazing drivers at some dozen dangerous crossings in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley section...
...Suicides and murders by means of potassium cyanide in Japan are increasing. Chemist Matsutaro Nishida of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Board announced discovery of a substance which, if mixed with the poison, would emit an odor so foul that it would deter would-be suicides from drinking it, warn victims of murder-plotters...
...Brandon is the wild daughter of a Virginia mountaineer. One of her earliest memories is of ringing a bell to warn her father at the still that the sheriff was coming for him. A tall, slender, dark-eyed girl, Kit runs away from home at 15, after her father reveals an unpaternal interest in her. She gets a job in a textile mill, learns fast. Kit is befriended by a hard, homely girl, feels humiliated by being called a "lint head" by the townspeople, is loved by a boy dying of tuberculosis. It is at this period of her life...