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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lies in the fact that though one address goes to an audience of 30,000,000 the contagion of the crowd is gone. The magnetism of the orator cools when transmitted through the microphone. The impassioned gesture swings through unseeing space. The purple period fades in color; the flashing eye meets no answering glance. . . . We sit in our library, in a room where we are accustomed to study and reflect, where all the surroundings are natural. When we there hear the same man speak we know him better than we could in the crowd. The very tones of his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contribution | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable, has yet brought himself into the public eye in a way that many of the more promising presidential candidates may well envy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK PAY | 4/7/1928 | See Source »

...read it thoroughly, with an analytical eye. I was proud that my boy should have picked out such a publication as TIME. He showed that his education had not been neglected and was bearing wonderful fruit. I waited for the next episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...bromide is any expression that has been used enough to become nauseating. Examples: i) Here's mud in your eye. 2) A little learning is a dangerous thing. 3) Finders keepers, losers weepers. 4) It's a sad world, mates. 5) One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Drug store cowboys are fond of bromides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. Fixit | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

PARIS BOUND?Divorce is avoided by the twinkling of an eye (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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