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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anatomy to fracture and contusion, subject to the whim, not of some human opponent, as in the great game of football, but of Newton's three laws. There is a savage pleasure in kicking the opposing tackle in the face, but one can only metaphorically spit in the eye of the law of gravity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...considering a bill appropriating $50,000,000 for crop, feed and seed loans to farmers. Senator after Sena tor was rising to put in good word, to make a friendly gesture towards his constituents, when Carter Glass of Virginia rose with a sly light in his sharp old eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Riot of Oratory | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...dihydroxyphenyl) beta (paraaminobenzoylbetadiethylaminoethanol) al-phaethanonehydrochloride. Dr. Osborne proved this strange substance's efficacy on the "frog's sciatic plexus . . . the cat's blood pressure, the uteri of the guinea pig and cat, the gut of the cat, rabbit and monkey, the excised frog's eye and the Pupil in the intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epicaine | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Hamilton, maintenance superintendent of Transcontinental & Western Air, it gave a bronze plaque for being a leader in maintenance improvement, being first to develop a maintenance manual as efficient as the operation procedure, first to insist that aircraft makers design not only from a flight aspect but also with an eye to ease of maintenance. At Kansas City, hefty Prizeman Hamilton heads TWA's maintenance crew of 418 men. or 15 valets for each one of TWA's 27 Douglas transports. ¶ An older prize presented again last week was the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of $250, given annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Awards | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Will you never return, Sir, to gladden our eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Angel Repudiated | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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