Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Arabia until he reached the hills and oasis of Kheybar-then south again with a caravan to the Mecca region, ending at the English Consulate at Jidda-a two years' saga of fortitude. And every stone, every plant, every beast on the way he observed with an eye as impartial as an angel's, set down the history and peculiarities of every tribe he met, passed through enough adventures to shake the soul of an Argive chief. Ten more years went to the writing of his travels. Those 20 years have built him a monument well nigh...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...their spectra, but surprising differences were found. Vega and Sirius are both blue-white stars, but the maximum heat of Vega is much farther toward the violet than that of Sirius. Rigel (blue) shows two maxima, one of which is in the infrared rays, invisible to the human eye. The apparatus detects differences of a hundred-millionth of a degree of heat. That is not enough, say the astronomers. It must be sharpened to a thousand-millionth, and many fainter stars of every type must be examined. Most of these big stars are found to be at least twice...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
Perhaps Mr. Stokes is a deep-dyed villain. At any rate it has not been settled in court of law. But this paper, the Daily News (Manhattan) pillories him before the public eye, championing the cause of Mrs. Stokes. It made even Mr. Stokes' comparatively innocent appearance? a harmless if not a handsome face? the subject of an almost libelous cartoon. And verbally it piled on mud to the dimensions of a plaster cast...