Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
...appreciated by a Government facing revolt in its colonial possessions. Stocky, bald-headed Jean Chiappe immediately set out for his post by air. His plane passed over Corsica and Sardinia, winged on over the blue Mediterranean toward Africa. About halfway there Jean Chiappe got a bird's-eye view of British and Italian naval forces fighting a battle. Above the warships planes dodged and swooped in an air fight. One of them (British, according to the Italians) caught sight of the Chiappe plane, got on its tail, fed it a burst of machine-gun bullets...
...naval operations off Newfoundland in winter are difficult at best. But from the island, long-range submarines and cruising ships can keep an eye on Greenland, 950 miles away, and patrol the sea lanes from Europe to Montreal, Boston and New York City...
...Oboler was described as "all the Dead End Kids put together." He badgered Escape's Director Mervyn Le Roy endlessly about studio technique, until Le Roy finally told him to watch through a camera finder and he would demonstrate a storm scene. As soon as Oboler had his eye glued to the finder, Le Roy cued technicians to drench him with cinema rain...
...little is the work of William Carlos Williams. A Rutherford, N. J. baby specialist and poet, Williams in his best verse gives the simple objects of existence the glistening integrity of pebbles in a quick stream. In White Mule, three years ago, he trained his poet-doctor's eye on the ordinary living of a U. S. middle-class family, set down their record in noiseless, antiseptic prose. In the Money is a continuation of White Mule. It is also a broad advance on the naturalist front...