Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trippers on the Furness liner Queen of Bermuda last week were treated to a demonstration of a new aid to mariners-a device which pierces fog and darkness to tell the navigator what obstacles lie near his ship. Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil calls the device a "fog-eye." To watch its first seagoing performance a group of U. S. and British naval observers, merchant marine experts, physicists made the trip to Bermuda. Lack of fog on the outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news...
...week he spends in the office of Pan American Airways, on the 42nd floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building, poring over blueprints, charts, tables, operations reports. He makes frequent trips to the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, Conn. and the Glenn L. Martin factory in Balti more, to watch progress on big flying boats abuilding for Pan American. Every Tues day, and often on other days, he goes up the street a block from the Chanin Building to the Graybar, to his duties as technical chairman of Transcontinental & West...
...automobile, the Vicomte de St. Denis (Maurice Chevalier) discovers, abandoned but chipper, a male infant. With this for a beginning, anyone who has ever seen a Chevalier picture should have a fair idea of how the story will develop: how the Vicomte happily lets the baby break his watch; how he splashes water on his patient valet (Edward Everett Horton) to amuse the infant; how he turns his bachelor apartment into a day nursery and dismisses, one by one, his lady friends; how he hires a nurse (Helen Twelvetrees) and falls in love with her after quarreling with his fiancee...
...second speaker, M. S. Tarnopol. grE.S., of the permanent Boston society for justice in the Mooney case, presented the facts in that case. He showed that Mooney was convicted on the testimony of hired witnesses, and that the prosecuting attorney had previously been employed by a detective agency to watch the activities of Mooney in a labour union. He concluded with a request for financial aid in order that the National Students League might send a delegate to a nation-wide United Front Conference...
...anticipate any riots," he grinned, "but we want to organize a pistol team to meet the crack Boston team. Until now our men have confined their sport to baseball and indoor contests. The shooting begins at 8 o'clock tonight and I imagine we could let some of you watch it, in case you want to see what you may have to cope with some fine night...