Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...Francis Jenkins, of Washington, D. C. He has transmitted " still " pictures from Washington to Philadelphia, and action pictures from one room to an adjoining one. The device is somewhat similar to that used in " telephotography," the light reflected from the pictures being cut into innumerable flashes by a " radio eye," a revolving disc composed of many mirrors. The flashes are transmitted into a photo-electric cell, which transforms them into electric waves to be relayed by wire or radio. The receiving apparatus just reverses the process. Mr. Jenkins is now working to secure longer distance in transmission...
...tanks containing 40,000 gallons of oil, the whole inside a protecting cage of steel wire, were used to " step up " a current of 2,000 volts one thousand times. In pitch darkness prepared cameras recorded the display on photographic plates, showing ultraviolet rays invisible to the human eye, as well as the blinding bolts of white, red and purple which leaped between needle points 15 feet apart...
Blood from Jack Dempsey's left eye dropped all over the newsprint of the country. The champion was batted in a sparring bout and the injury forced his layoff for several days...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: WHOSE BODY?−Dorothy L. Sayers−Boni and Liveright ($2.00). A respectable little London architect wakes up one morning to dis- cover the body of an unknown Israelite, nude except for a pair of gold pince-nez, in his bathtub. Whose body? And who is responsible for its presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter...