Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annual Convention is more truthful than flattering, and I imagine will result in your getting a severe calling down from many Legionnaires. I have no criticism to make in regard to your report of the actions of some members whose conduct gave the whole body a black eye...
...sure he recalls that nine out of ten living creatures are insects, that 6,500 new insect species are classified every year, that the total number of species may some day reach 10,000,000. More important, with sundry ruses and infinite patience he succeeded in photographing an insect-eye view of the world with which to illustrate lives of 18 wild beasts of the grassroots...
...Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an article in which he referred to the tripleweight atom of hydrogen, generally called tritium, as "triterium." When this verbal goblin reached the eye of Dr. Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium' [accepted name for the double-weight hydrogen atom...
...realizing the change. Good and bad, wealth and poverty, freedom and tyranny seemed to have struck a permanent balance. It was a time of elaborate facades and filthy backstreets, of nearsighted perceptions and long-range emotions. If a gentleman, posting hastily through the slums, had a tear in his eye, it was not for the squalor and misery he saw around him, but for the sorrows of Goethe's best-selling Young Wertker. It was only a truism when Edward Gibbon, concluding on the eve of the French Revolution his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, remarked that...
Nothing is known about the visiting Freshman teams. Both teams will undoubtedly have something. The Crimson 1941 harriers have two good men in Robert B. Nichols and Charles H. Oldfather, Rolla Campbell, former Exeter half-miler, is improving rapidly, and Jaakko has his eye on him not only as a cross country man but as a track...