Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible, to ends of paragraphs, or at least ends of sentences, so that they can be read at natural breaks or pauses in the story, like asides in a play. The recommended procedure is to read each footnote as its asterisk, dagger or double asterisk appears. Any able reading eye should then be able to find its way back to the point of digression in the main text. Less nimble eyes can be aided by staking out the point of digression with forefinger or pencil. Readers too engrossed by the main discourse to break off are advised to reverse this...
...organ, the Midland Bank's monthly review, Chairman McKenna minced no words of praise, called "perfectly right'' the President's action in blocking stabilization of the dollar's exchange rate by the London Conference and in shaping U. S. fiscal policy wholly with an eye to the dollar's internal value. "There are two sorts of stability," declared the McKenna review, "stability in internal purchasing power over other commodities and services, and in external purchasing power over other currency units. Notwithstanding the appalling experiences of recent years and their obvious association with the internal...
Although I appreciate as much as anyone, the unerring eye in Lehman Hall, that picks matronly biddies for the dormitories, I believe their list of instructions must read something like this...
...thousand thousand leaves, and each leaf falls to the ground where there are million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...
...constellation, Perseus, which forms with Andromeda, an over lasting dramatic picture in the skies. In November, the earth passes through another belt and is bombarded by meteors from the direction of Leo, so that as many as 40 "shooting stars" can be seen in one minute with the Naka eye. There will be an exhibit of outstanding stellar photography, and an observation and identity of constellations if the weather permits. The development of astronomical equipment, illustrations of the Hooker telescope, the famous Lick observatory, spectroscopes, and the work Harvard has done in solar studies in South Africa, will be shown...