Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the various reputed attractions of a university town are its handsome editices and well-kept grounds. For the most part Harvard's buildings have been constructed with some attempt to please the eye, and the daily pick-up of all wayward cigarette stubs along the walks of the Yard would do justice to a royal lawn. But the care bestowed by the university on other parts of its property is very different...
...inducing the G. O. P. to go to his city for its convention last year. Lawyer, farmer, banker, son of a Kentucky clergyman (Protestant), strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy's inner keep, there to plot great political stratagems for the future, out of the public eye. Said...
There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...
...Tireman Seiberling is also in Northfield). When in England (which he visited last summer) he rented a. spacious estate, entertained on royal scale. He is a collector of books on sports and supports the Northfield Hunt Club. From faces, Broker Eaton likes to deduce character, studies physiognomies with attentive eye. Broker Eaton and his associates (loosely referred to as the "Eaton interests") have holdings in Republic Iron & Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Inland Steel, Central Alloy Steel & Otis Steel?a steel group with an aggregate ingot capacity equal to about 70% of U. S. Steel's output...
...Royal cars have a duplicate speedometer, visible to the Royal eye. All are washed, polished, greased every night. Fortnightly a representative of Dunlap Rubber Co. (slogan: Dunlap Tires as British as the Flag!) journeys to wherever in Great Britain the Royal cars may be and thoroughly tests the rubber of each tire, scanning minutely for nails, flints, stone-bruises. Thus the undignified spectacle of Majesty waiting for a burst tire to be changed is seldom or never presented to English eyes...