Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue-eyed, honey-haired Helen Elizabeth Phillips is a graduate of Redwood City's Sequoia High School, served apprenticeship in the stoneyards of the California School of Fine Arts under the sympathetic eye of Sculptor Ralph Stackpole. When Helen Phillips later entered the school, she found Sculptor Stackpole's vigorous, massive modernism much to her liking. Working directly on the stone like her tutor, Sculptor Phillips completed and exhibited two determined, crisply defined heads, took the Art Association's $300 Purchase Prize for a sturdy Young Woman (see cut). Her scholarship money will enable Sculptor Phillips...
...human eye were tuned to longer wave lengths of radiation, it would be able to see radio waves. The ethereal wiggles that gird the globe with speech and music are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed...
...members of the convening Society of Automotive Engineers traipsed into a darkened room, blinked in the glare of a pair of automobile headlights, then, passing behind a clear glass windshield, observed that although the light beams illuminated the room display, they no longer glared into the observer's eye...
...Angell's very successful social personality, which has done much to smooth his long academic route and manifests itself at once in the friendly twinkle of his eye, emerged shortly after the Chinese interlude. At the University of Michigan, "Jim" Angell learned to strike a discreet mean between the propriety expected of the president's son, the humanity expected of a normal undergraduate. He became a Phi Beta Kappa and a Delta Kappa Epsilon almost simultaneously. He shortstopped for the baseball team and won the University and State tennis championships. He played a clarinet in the University band...
...undergraduate school, got its turn at the trough last. One reason is that the College itself, largely home-ruled, resisted change. Another is that James Angell is not deeply impressed by Yale College either as a parcel of ancient traditions or as a seat of learning. Even now his eye wanders when visitors babble about the almost flagrant picturesqueness of the acres of neo-Gothic and neo-Colonial stone and brick with which some $60,000,000 of Edward Stephen Harkness' and the late John William Sterling's money has entirely redecorated the city of New Haven...