Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than in the United States. About a quarter of the workers in all factories we visited were women who appeared to be doing exactly the same kind of work as men. The youth of the Soviet workers and engineers and managers was striking. Laboratories are well developed everywhere. My eye was struck by the manner in which each factory is training its engineers in the factory itself...
...paper of that class to which the Examiner belongs -that class which appeals to the people and which depends for its success upon enterprise, energy and a certain startling originality and not upon the wisdom of its political opinions or the lofty style of its editorials. . . Illustrations attract the eye and stimulate the imagination of the masses and materially aid the comprehension of an unaccustomed reader and thus are of particular importance to that class of people which the Examiner claims to address...
...merchant, Roger Babson has probably made more money out of statistics than anyone in the U. S. One of the chapters in his autobiography is headed, "$1,200 Becomes Millions." As a youth, he relates, he "always liked bright, jolly girls, full of the dickens." But he kept his eye on the main chance, and after a disillusioning turn in investment banking, followed by a bad case of tuberculosis, he set himself up in Wellesley Hills, Mass. as a purveyor of business figures under the name Babson's Statistical Organization, Inc. He and his wife were the sole stockholders...
...threat to the educational principles for which President Conant and Harvard stand. The result of entering the political lists when the institution is not directly concerned, as it is in the oath law, is to focus the attention of the politicians on the universities, and it may engender an "eye for an eye" attitude that will do more than anything else to destroy their traditional freedom...
...film is done entirely in techni-perfect, the previously annoying eye strain is pleasantly absent. So far, photographers seem to have been unable to avoid an exaggeration of color, but many of the mountain shots are exceedingly well done...