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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed numbers of Ethiopians and would infallibly have killed Graziani & Staff had the tin roof not been there. The Chief of Italy's East African Air Force General Aurelio Liotta not only had to have a leg amputated, as the world press has reported, but also lost an eye and suffered 20 body wounds, according to the French version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: High-Grade Lowdown | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...University, and the overcrowding of the Hemenway Gymnasium. At Hemenway there are even freshman basketball teams in practice, further squeezing out the graduate students who would like to use the floors. And even the facilities for exercise which do exist are so little advertised and pushed into the public eye by the authorities in charge--a conspicuous example is Soldiers Field--that many who come to Harvard from far-away colleges never even know what they are missing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL WORK AND NO PLAY | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...discourtesy of unannounced snapshooting. He pushed another of the photographers out the door. There was the evening when Alumnus Charles Evans Hughes, '81, attended a Brown University alumni dinner and was caught by the camera beaming happily over a plate of oysters, the twinkle in his eye not betraying the fact that before the week was out he was to be the opposition's first big witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And there was another evening when Justice McReynolds attended, as he usually does, the annual banquet of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...came Albert the Good, a dual biography of Victoria and Albert by Mr. Bolitho which first caught everyone's eye because it was illustrated with gaudy, excruciating Victorian color plates and valentines-these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Edward's Friend | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners own no stock in the track. Certain it is that Bulletins hefty department store advertisers look on the track's activities with a thoroughly jaundiced eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: War in Rhode Island | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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