Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...KIND?J. P. Marquand ?Scribner's ($1.75). This volume is made up of four swift-moving, active, unpretentious tales. They are a little longer than short stories, not long enough to be called novels. Their chief merit rests in the young author's vigor of presentation, his quick eye for externals, a certain freshness of viewpoint. One of the four is concerned with a prizefighter; another with a debutante; the third story is set in an advertising office; the last is a tale of horses and the riding thereof...
Diagnosis of high blood pressure-a disease largely confined to middle age-has hitherto been based chiefly on the assumed presence of incurable hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). Now come Dr. Henry A. Higley, pathologist of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, and Dr. Cyrus W. Field, of Bellevue, Manhattan, who say that a large majority of high blood-pressure cases are due to other causes, particularly to abnormal conditions of the blood due to inactivity of the kidneys. They are using a formula of Dr. D. D. Van Slyke, of the Rockefeller Institute-a method of determining the functional...
...Ruthenes demand instruction for their children in their respective mother tongues. As a result, the schools in all large cities must have five teachers for every class, carrying on the same work simultaneously in the five languages. Naturally, this duplication results in expense and waste. But with a shrewd eye to the future, the authorities have prescribed English for all students, so that, gradually a common tongue may replace the minor dialects for educational purposes...