Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first semester in particular, it would be helpful to read fine models, such, for example, a chapter in Travelyan's "History of England", do a little correlated reading in the library, and then rewrite a chapter, not with the intention of aping the style, but with an eye to clear, precise, and thoroughly readable presentation of facts...
Aware that homing, even for pigeons, is an acquired impulse, it occurred to Hirsch Jacobs that few race horses know what horse races are for. Buying cheap, discarded beasts which, to his sharp eye, possessed potentialities of speed, he schooled them in the neglected fundamentals of their profession, as though winning were a kind of circus trick. Logical, the first thing Trainer Jacobs teaches horses is the start. Orthodox horsemen are frequently disconcerted when one of Mr. Jacobs' educated mounts streaks industriously away from the barrier before his rivals know a race is on. Trainer Jacobs' 146th winner...
...Archbishop of Canterbury in which he sneered: "Most Reverend Thomas Davidson ... if you tell too many lies, the Communist International will appoint two of its experts to write a history of the archbishopric of Canterbury which will make you feel sorry for yourself. . . . [When Henry VIII] had cast his eye on a simpering miss named Anne Boleyn, the Archbishop of Canterbury decided that all the Church dogmas and all the rulings of its head, the Pope of Rome, might make a comfortable pillow for his lascivious king. Even when Henry VIII got tired of Anne Boleyn and decided to have...
...windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye...
Another performance which fascinated the convention was Dr. Otto Barkan's operation for chronic glaucoma. In this disease the tiny drain called "canal of Schlemm" becomes clogged. It cannot carry away excess fluid which accumulates within the ball of the eye. Internal pressure eventually atrophies the optic nerve, causes blindness. The usual operation for glaucoma punctures the eyeball daintily, lets accumulated fluid escape. However, in many cases the hole soon seals itself, necessitating further operation. Dr. Barkan found that blockade of the canal of Schlemm is often due to grains of pigment which slip in from the iris...