Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Able Frank Murphy likes his job in the Philippines, announced before departing for the U. S. two months ago that he hoped and expected to return. But his friends know that he has had his eye on Michigan's Governorship for a long time, that at 43 his political ambitions are virtually boundless. Having stayed long enough to achieve a notable reputation for tact and efficiency, the eleventh and last Governor General of the Philippines may have concluded that the post might prove for him the same kind of stepping stone which it was for the eighth. Henry Lewis...
...section of the Los Angeles sewer system which no live eye has seen since the city's discharge started flowing through it, 220,000,000 gal. per hr. at the rate of 3 ft. per sec., is the 6-mi. tunnel under the Del Rey Hills to the ocean. Last week Reuben Brown prepared to travel those six subterranean miles in a non-sinkable 9-ft. punt...
...This procedure rubs the cloth samples as hard as any washing machine or washwoman can ever do. After thorough rinsing in warm (110 degrees F.) water, drying and ironing (at 275 degrees F.), the specimen is compared with the unwashed specimen. If no difference is discernible to the naked eye, and if the piece of white cotton cloth is not stained, the color is fast enough for the American Society for Testing Materials...
...that of "a number of attempts to achieve liberty." The central character's life, Huxley says, shows "how easy it is for a man, by nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza is written in a choppy, experimental fashion which seems designed to take some of the curse of banality off this sober theme. It is divided into 54 episodes, each episode dated, but the dates related in an emotional rather than chronological pattern. Thus the first episode takes place...
...would not say how nearly he had brought his big job to completion. Readers who had watched this literary skyscraper rise from its foundations were still unable to agree whether it actually was to be a skyscraper, a museum, a prison or what. Skeptics still cocked a wary eye at the construction, averred that by the time it was completed the foundations might well give way and that the whole thing might be nothing but a heap of Romains remains. Sympathizers still stoutly declared it to be one of the burgeoning wonders of the literary world. Whatever...