Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...males with shaveable beards. Only one-third of these are in the condition called "civilized." Hence a great majority of the world's male population is still a potential new market for razors. And in the U. S. alone every year, 400,000 youths gaze into a mirror and realize they have come of shaving age. For many a year Gillette Safety Razor Co., oldest in its field, has led all competitors in supplying existing markets, and in prying into new markets...
...Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther on, famed Meteor Crater, 600 ft. deep; the tiny boxes at the bottom are cabins of an expedition which has located, is digging up the meteorite. Farther on mesa dwellers, descendants of the original Hopi, gaze up from their doorways in the face of the earth at the winged monster on high. Beyond Kingman the plane crosses the Colorado River into California from where, if the day be clear, the passenger can see the lowest and highest points in the U. S.; Death Valley ( - 276 ft.) and Mt. Whitney...
Pick any squad at random. Number One, front rank, is a yearling, or second year man. Slowly his gaze sweeps up and down the crowd on the visitors" benches as far to the right and left as he can cut his eyes. That blonde in the red dress--no--gee, what terrible legs. He sighs and resumes his search. If he sees anything interesting he will call the attention of his classmate to his left. The femme in the green dress. Neat, but there must be something a little snappier in the crowd. There--three femmes and two cits...
...world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...good of it, and wish to contribute of their best to it. On that basis, as Ticknor rightly said. Harvard's athletes have always shown on the field a remarkable amount of team spirit. But the idea that spectators can win games by the intensity of their gaze and the power of their lungs is not exalted at Harvard, firstly, because such pressure does not seem an especially admirable test of inward spirit, and secondly, because the idea that games can be so won is ninetenths a fallacy. Boston Transcript...