Word: pockets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Father Divine's adherents, including the Manhattan cooks referred to, believe implicitly and specifically that he manifests all the money he needs for his personal uses and for whomever he chooses to help from the invisible dimension, and that he manifests it in his pocket instantaneously as he chooses...
...assistant attorney general to help press for extradition through diplomatic channels. Last week in Athens Mr. Harness firmly declared that the Greek Court of Appeals had no right to pass on the substance of the Insull indictment but only upon the legal regularity of the extradition request. In his pocket was a warrant signed by President Roosevelt for the arrest of Fugitive Insull whom Forest Harness was ready to escort home like any common crook...
...faculty which amounts to genius for manufacturing sobriquets which not only stuck but fitted. When, therefore, an obscure Tennessee General defied the Secretary of War, when he wangled twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville--it was certainly time for a new nickname. "He's tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from the ranks. "Tough as hickory," observed...
...more easily conveyed through some solids, among them human bone, than through air. The devices announced last week simply short-circuit the outer and middle ear, transmit sound vibrations directly to the auditory nerves via head bones. Sound waves are picked up by a transmitter, passed through a pocket amplifier to a tiny oscillator, which a head band holds snugly against the mastoid bone behind the ear. (Sonotone's improvement consisted in eliminating an oscillator "button" which protruded uncomfortably against the head...
...Army officer, Lieut. William A. Cocke Jr., had sailed for 21½ hr. over Honolulu two years ago. . . . Kurt Schmidt swung along the ridge again, soared silently through the darkness. His friends on the ground, catching the idea, flashed weather signals to him with a pocket flashlight. Midnight passed, dawn broke, the sun touched meridian. Kurt Schmidt, tired and hungry, sailed on & on. A second dusk brought threats of a storm. Schmidt and the Loerzer landed with a duration record...