Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Gold Is Where Yo Find It was being edited & cut, a hillside in Los Angeles' Elysian Park started shifting, tumbled boulders down on a highway beneath. To the scene rushed Warner cameramen with Technicolor equipment, floodlights for an all-night watch. Script writers got right to work on a landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated...
...with special "ESP" (ExtraSensory Perception) cards which he has patented. If one of Dr. Rhine's subjects guessed nine or ten right out of 25 hidden cards, he had a good score. To Margery, such scores seemed piddling. Margery challenged Dr. Rhine to sit in at a seance, watch her perform clairvoyance with cards. Dr. Rhine refused unless strict laboratory conditions were imposed. Margery "re-challenged" Dr. Rhine, and there the matter stood...
...evidence of banking recovery embodied in the statistics of his report, Jefty O'Connor had to share honors with those two other Federal agencies which also watch over the national banking system, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That only twelve national bank's have failed since Mr. O'Connor took office-compared to 1,750 in the previous decade-was largely the result of the fact that banking was the only U. S. industry which was allowed to pass through the depression wringer. And the fact that deposits reached a record high...
...Holy Land - painful because Reeves's grief deepened in the grim and melancholy country and because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch. It was 23 minutes to six. That incident takes place on page 49 of Hearken unto the Voice. On page 775 Reeves is still looking at his watch and the time is still 23 minutes...
...story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because he would not tell kings or commoners what they...