Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already have my photo in your files. It is that blurred composite picture showing a man trying to keep his ear to the ground, his eye to the future and his chin up all at the same time. It's a good trick...
...criminals to mutilate their fingerprints with acid or otherwise until recognition is dubious or impossible. Medical societies have been shown photographs of faces completely altered by plastic surgery. Year ago Dr. Carleton Simon, Manhattan criminologist, proposed an identification system based on the pattern of blood vessels in the eye, which is never the same in any two individuals (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). A malefactor would not be able to beat this system, Dr. Simon pointed out, unless he blinded himself. Last week two Iowa State University psychologists suggested yet another system, not infallible but good in the majority of cases...
...from the cave at Chou-Kou-Tien, whence the famed pair of skulls belonging to Pekin Man first came to light in 1929, came news that two more skulls had been found. Reported from China last week was a fifth skull of Pekin Man, with the nose and eye sockets better preserved than in any of the others...
Meanwhile Richfield's 5,000 service stations and rich reserves had caught the eye of "Cities Service's Chairman Doherty, who bought large blocks of Richfield stock & bonds, offered to exchange Cities Service shares for Richfield shares, even paid Richfield's state gas tax when the foundering company's $85,000,000 book assets included practically no cash. Later, however, when the banking creditors' committee, bondholders' protective committee and unsecured creditors' committee were pondering a Doherty reorganization plan, Oilman Doherty looked into Richfield's books more closely, withdrew the plan and apparently...
About this time Harry Sinclair borrowed a Fokker from his new Rio Grande company, flew to California for an oilmen's dinner in his honor. "Gentlemen," said he, looking brawny President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California in the eye, "I am in California and I am in to stay." Richfield's next half-dozen abortive reorganization plans came alternately from Standard Oil's Kingsbury and Consolidated's Sinclair. As soon as the prospects seemed good for selling out to one company the other company would raise the bid. Sinclair's last offer...