Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...omitted until His Majesty's Government recently began to take a line more friendly to Italy. Few weeks ago "Italian atrocities in Ethiopia" were big journalistic stuff, especially when they were supposed to have been committed against the Red Cross. Last week equally big news in England was eye-witness testimony by Ebenezer Ralph Hooper, M. D., a member of the American Ambulance Mission in Ethiopia. Speaking at Leeds, terse Dr. Hooper said that Benito Mussolini had been right in claiming that the Ethiopian high command deliberately misused the Red Cross for purposes of war. Original offender was Emperor...
...waterworks superintendents are famed among hotelmen and convention solicitors for the fact that they almost never do any damage. In their convention lobby they gazed earnestly at water tinkling through complete model systems; at a scale model of Los Angeles' new automatic chlorinator, which has a photo-electric "eye" to maintain the proper proportion of chlorine. Highlights of the meeting...
Alumni guessed that Lawrenceville's changes would cost $3,000,000. Headmaster Heely did not worry, confident that whatever they cost would be paid by Benefactor Harkness, who rarely sets sums in advance, likes to keep a friendly eye on his projects, suggest an improvement now & then himself...
...Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times and will please all those who find this study sufficiently interesting to overcome the noxious results of a censor's unseeing eye...
...last week's American Medicine, "I stopped for a traffic light. As I reached to shift gears, I saw two hands and two gear shift levers. I was confused for a second, but was brought to my senses immediately by a brilliant play of colors in my right eye. The colors fluttered rapidly, and were not synchronous with the cardiac impulse [heart beat]. They involved the areas receiving the long (red) and the short (purple and violet) light waves. I then knew what had happened, and my only thought now was to get home before greater consequences followed...