Word: inspecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another occasion," continued the experienced librarian, "I had been watching a young man diligently inspect the Emerson and Fielding shelf for some time without apparently being able to discover just what he wanted. When I asked if he could be helped he replied quickly, 'Oh, yes, I was looking to see if there was anybody here who would give me two nickels for a dime. I wanted to telphone.' I insisted that he take the only nickel. I had in change although he wanted to give me the dime. He went away happy, and returned the loan the next...
...before their return they would never, never have gone. They went. And soon the first ridge of old egg shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made a pilgrimage to the spring about four feet above the first story...
Rear Admiral Latimer was not called upon to inspect the "rights" of the situation (see above). Sailorlike, he obeyed his orders from Washington. Curt, he commanded President Juan Sacasa to disarm his troops or withdraw them from the Puerto Cabezas area. Secondly, he ordered the local mahogany growers to pay taxes only to the Conservative Government of Adolfo Diaz. By these acts it appeared that the hopes entertained by Dr. Sacasa and the Mexican Government that he should continue President had been blasted...
...instrument, about five inches long, into the mouth of which one hums the tune, with a result rather like the sound of humming through a paper-covered hair-comb. The correspondent removed the instrument from his mouth, wiped it on his sleeve and gave it to the Prince to inspect. H. R. H. promptly placed it in his own mouth and commenced practising upon...
...with pearl material, a process that somewhat resembles the formation of a felon around a sliver in a finger. Kokichi Mikimoto employs 500 Japanese girls and many a man to go diving for the pearl oysters, hazardous occupation. Last week he debarked at San Francisco, on his way to inspect his Exposition show; remarked: "Naturally, I do not want to lower prices, but I have one aim-a pearl of my own for every woman in the world." (He already has produced one-eighth of the world's supply of cultured pearls...