Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factory building, nor a replica of the Kremlin nor of Potsdam's ornate Neues Palais awaited President Roosevelt's first official inspection last week. As a matter of fact the work of enlarging the Executive Offices had been done so cunningly that it would take a sharp eye to detect the changes from the outside. But on the inside there was ample evidence of what Architect Lorenzo Simmons Winslow, a $4,000-3-year employe of the National Park Service, ably assisted by Eric Gugler, consulting architect, and N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago had done with the $325.000 assigned...
...fish anywhere along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home...
...Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History has discovered that bees can see ultraviolet light. If the bee's food receptacle is labeled with a card painted ultraviolet-white, the bee will soon learn to select that card among plain white cards which to the human eye seem indistinguishable from the one selected. No entomologist would use this visual faculty to lure to destruction the useful honey bee. But in Lafayette, Ind., scientists of Purdue University pondered ways of coping with the codling moth', a mottled, foreshortened little creature whose larvae develop in apples...
...robbers also took a large number of postage stamps, with an eye to the day when they might learn how to write...
With a considerable number of men from the defunct Junior Varsity, in addition to the regular enthusiasts, expected to report. House basketball holds its first turnout of the season at 4 o'clock this afternoon under the eye of Coach Joseph M. Hill 2L, a graduate of Colgate...