Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this material, "we did not make the goldfish"), monstrous cauldrons and crushers and carborundum refractories that industrial chemists use in their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged...
...soon as the Chemical Exposition (see above) closed its doors and dismantled its display, into the "palace" sped men with hammers, saws, paints, brushes, tweezers, nippers, screwdrivers, wire and tapes, to prepare new wonders for the public eye-the 18th annual Electrical and Industrial Exposition. Inklings of what was in store were issued: a device enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless...
Fain would I pause with anguished eye...
...injury to his eye, the result of being hit by a ball batted in practice, has not healed sufficiently to allow Howard to continue his regular courses, and he is listed this year as a special student. Howard intends to return for two years after completing this year's special course. As the Harvard-Yale-Princeton agreement allows three years University playing, Howard, if his sight permits, will be able to continue his career on the rink and diamond next year...
...will reassemble tomorrow for a meeting to discuss plans for the coming season. The prospects for polo this year are unusually bright. Although still unrecognized as a minor sport, the brilliance of the team's performance last spring in winning the intercollegiate championship took University polo into the public eye to such an extent as to make probable its recognition as a minor sport...