Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers winked an eye reflecting upon the oil beneath the surface of Irak and remembering Colonel Amery's passionate insistence before the League Council that it should "request" Britain to conclude the treaty which continues the British regime in Irak for another quarter of a century (TIME, Dec. 28, THE LEAGUE...
...Although printed Dutch words convey a guttural jangle to the English-reading eye, the ample Dutch vocal cord mellows them astonishingly...
...week Premier King's Liberal henchmen whooped up voters of their persuasion at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where a vacant seat had been specially created by the resignation of one of Mr. King's friends in order that he might campaign for it. The territory was naturally chosen with an eye to being "safe." The candidate who opposed the Premier was one Captain D. L. Burgess, a sufficiently insignificant Independent. Suddenly, on the eve of the election, the Captain became obstreperous. He used the word "corruption." He pointed to a printed ballot on which appeared the Premier's full style...
...diseases, absence of sanitation, early marriages with a high death rate for mothers and children, and the lack of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and dispensaries. In one North Carolina county 5,000 people, half of the population, were examined for hookworm; 42% were infected. Trachoma, the highly infectious eye disease, was present in 2.3% of 816 children seen...
...HOUNDS OP SPRING?Sylvia Thompson?Little, Brown ($2). The bird's-eye view of Miss Thompson's novel is promising. A girl's true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word...