Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countryside aglow with Sweden's famed roses. Herr Kreuger asked the visitors to tea at one of his country homes. When they arrived they discovered everywhere rosebushes in full bloom: adroit Herr Kreuger had gone to Stockholm hothouses, arranged for roses to meet the visiting eye...
...William Holland Wilmer, 66, great Johns Hopkins eye specialist and teacher, has cured many a desperate eye affliction. Grateful patients led by Mrs. Henry Breckinridge four years ago gave the university more than $4,000,000 to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute in his honor and under his direction. This week the building was dedicated, unique in that it is the first of its kind to be associated with both a medical school and a general hospital...
...later and perhaps less bountiful meal, but it was certainly true, even in my own day, that cadets, especially upper classmen, reserved the right of taking away from the mess hall inside their blouses or under their capes any choice bits that they thought would escape the vigilant eye of the Officer in Charge or the Cadet Officer...
West Point, the locality, was well known as a site of extreme importance long before West Point, the Military Academy replaced with its buildings of instruction the forts and bastions of defense. The name West Point was first brought before the public eye when, in 1776, the realization came both to the Colonists and to the British Chief Staff that a strategical control of the Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts...
...chief of the sacred treasures of Japan is the mirror which contains the spirit of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of H. I. M. The Emperor of Japan. Of such superlative sanctity is Amaterasu's mirror that for centuries no human eye has ever actually seen it. Rumored to be a round plate of polished metal, it rests in an elaborate tabernacle, shrouded in a cover of white brocade. When the brocade wears out a new cover is slipped over the old-no priest would dare peek...