Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner had shoved her entire length onto the coral reef, was punctured in several places, seemed at first glance to have reached the end of her 27-year career. Still on board with a skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days his worried vigil was rewarded with calm weather, as speedily-marshaled salvagers arrived and went to work. Having only two salvage ships...
...seen it. It has been produced in Paris, Vienna, London, Rome, Berlin (by Max Reinhardt) and by numerous amateur and stock companies in the U. S. Consistently boisterous and occasionally funny, it is supposed to show that Russians can laugh at the pomposities of Communist doctrine under the tolerant eye of the Soviet high command, which knows a good safety-valve when it sees...
...consists of two lens-studded globes mounted on each end of a cylindrical frame eleven feet long, is shaped like a huge dumbbell, looks like the grotesque plaything of an ogre. In effect the machine is simply an extremely versatile stereopticon. It shows the stars visible to the naked eye from anywhere on Earth, about 4,500 from any one spot; the sun, the moon and its phases, the planets, variable stars, comets, meteors, the Milky Way. It can rehearse a 24-hour maneuver of the celestial bodies in a few minutes, can show the night sky as it appeared...
...report was not 24 hours old when the first stone was cast by one of Dr. Bayne's own colleagues. Cocking one eye at the report and the other at a Sun reporter, Assistant Superintendent John L. Tildsley let fly: "The members of the committee may not mean what they have so clearly said, but if so then I regard this as the most dangerous report ever made within my knowledge by any committee of the school system. . . . Let us follow this through logically. A pupil enrolls in the elementary schools, spends six years there without being required...
...season it forms on the succulent carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm. Some natives boil the wax in water; others toast it in a dry kettle. Finally, they strain it through a cotton cloth, leave it to cool. From 1,500 to 2,500 leaves are required for one arroba...