Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the middle ages, such a slip would have simply served to prove idiosyncrasies of the eye were divinely ordered. Now cynical newspapers broadcast the failure and unfriendly governments discourage pilgrimages to the healers...
...habit of being afraid of any one! . . . We are sufficiently insolent and explicit to substitute a new formula for an old one, since we are furthering the cause of truth and civilization and even of peace. Our new formula is this: 'We exact the payment of two eyes for the loss of only one eye, and of a whole set of teeth for the loss of only one tooth...
...Vitamin A helps young animals grow, keeps them from certain eye affections; its absence is a factor in rickets. Vitamin B stimulates the metabolic processes, especially those concerned in digestion and assimilation of food. Vitamin C prevents scurvy...
...last (February) issue of this cynical periodical, under the fishy eye of Editor Henry L. Mencken, one James D. Bernard, a "newspaper man who is now devoting himself chiefly to sociological investigation," took it upon himself to whack nastily at the Baptists,* of whom there are some 8,000,000 in the U. S. Mr. Bernard had read through all of 250 issues of the many publications sponsored by the many Baptist organizations of the country, and from his meanderings uncoiled into print. Thus he started his paper...
Great men are drawn to greater. As the luncheon got under way, many a potent executive's eye wandered to George Bruce Cortelyou, former Secretary of the Treasury (1907-09), President of the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York; and Owen Young, one of the U. S. investigators of the German Budget, and Chairman of the board of both the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America. Both of these gentlemen were seated prominently at the speaker's table. While waiting for them to speak, the picturesque career of handsome, well-groomed Mr. Cortelyou was envisioned by many...