Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems safe to predict that they will never be formulated. At least, they should never be. The mobile and plastic character of youth defy all weighing and balancing with an eye to future usefulness. How often have contemporary judgments of youth shown the futility of the attempt! Many a young firebrand, after showing great promise, has drifted out of sight and has never been heard of more; many an obscure thinker and plodder has surprised an indifferent world with bursts of unsuspected power...
...past century Harvard has been reputed the rich man's college. The Fellows and Overseers have usually been elected with an eye to their positions in the financial and social worlds. The recent case of the resignation of Professor Baker brought up the question of whether big business and liberal education could live together. When Mr. Chapman says not, he has the support of the best feelings of all true humanists. Colleges are becoming less and less cultural and more and more like standardized schools where the sons of business men learn willynilly the fine art of success in business...
...NEEDLE'S EYE - Scribner ($2.00). (TiME...
...introducing the Roman alphabet, which is the one we use in writing English, instead of the modified Greek character in which Russian has always been written. Psychologists claim that the Roman small letters, with their projections above and below the line, present a contour more readily grasped by the eye than the 'solid blocks of Russian lower case characters. Thus MAJILHHK which
...towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro under showers of blows from a furious, compact human whirlwind that flew now at his head, now at his ribs, now at his jaw, now at his pounding heart...