Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confusion was complete as to exactly what next occurred. Some said there was a rattle of machine guns as Wrinkle-Face bolted, then sprawled dead. Other "eye witnesses" told of a bland and bold acquiescence in the "execution" by Wrinkle-Face, who quietly walked out into the garden and stood up to a firing squad which shot him down. In either case mortally wounded Wrinkle-Face collapsed in a great splotch of his blood upon the snow, and one of the mustards threw a piece of matting over the corpse which was soon covered by the falling flakes...
Last week Dr. Bridges published in Science further researches with charts clearly showing a gene maneuver associated with the appearance of abnormally small eyes in the fly. This mutation, discovered in 1913, was christened "Bar." Some true-breeding strains showing the Bar mutant developed other mutations in which the eye was even further reduced ("Bar-double") or returned to normal ("Bar-reverted...
...University of Rochester Dr. Wallace Osgood Fenn and his associate, taking advantage of the fact that when the human eye moves it generates a slight electric current, invented a metre which bridges the face from temple to temple, makes a record of eye movements. They found that a subject moves his eyes about five times while reading a line of print, keeps his gaze fixed when shaking his head, moves his eyes before he moves his head when looking to the side...
...eastward side of his countenance bears a less benevolent aspect, a grim eye watches Japan, and he asserts, "If Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian Republic . . . . we have to be able to help that republic." And so it goes. The Russians bluster and the Japanese cat fire, in a vein ridiculously similar to boastful statements from pugilistic training camps...
...become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh and full of rage and energy" as he was, Negley Farson still looked forward with a keenly optimistic, amiable, but less rowdy eye...