Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uninjured by the bombings but a shocked eye-witness was Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Quickly she telegraphed a protest to Mme Chiang Kai-shek with whom she had dined earlier in the week...
...only 55.1, and could recover in 5.55 sec. from glare which blinded women for 7.47 sec. Other tests indicated that men generally have quicker reactions, better hearing, better concentration when at the wheel, although women drive more slowly, distinguish colors better, have better vision from the corner of the eye. Quipped Safety Director Burton W. Marsh, who conducted the tests: "The ladies may not find it tactful to cite that men have higher blood pressure, because the men might say it's caused by women drivers...
...which Congress, directly or indirectly, has already given the Public Health Service to start moving the National Institute of Health to Bethesda, Md. As soon as buildings are ready Dr. Thompson will move his staff of 650. He no longer does research himself. "I sort of keep an eye on my boys, and help to get the money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken for the new buildings at Bethesda, where...
...cinema has a special category for what it calls "prestige pictures." Made with an eye to pleasing serious critics, these productions are intended primarily to stimulate the self-respect rather than fill the purses of their makers. Prestige pictures are such films as The Green Pastures, Winter set, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Camille and the like. Many prestige pictures lost money. Many are bores...
...child (the only survivor of seven) "he tended towards consumption and dropsy, was subject to violent fluctuations of temperature, suffered a contraction of the nerves, and had a fistula in one eye." Able at 12 to recite Pope's Homer and the Arabian Nights, he was soon so deep in Roman history that he resented mealtime, could not go to sleep for thinking about discrepant history dates. Sent to Oxford as a gentleman scholar at 15. he had "no duties and many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling...