Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motives behind Countess Ciano's visit were less apparent, perhaps more subtle. The clever, scheming, 32-year-old Edda is no mean politician and diplomat. She was one of the behind-the-scenes architects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. As the apple of Papa Benito's eye, pro-German Daughter Edda was largely instrumental in persuading II Duce to go the whole hog in his attachment to the German Führer...
...recent months rumors have reached steelmakers that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., whose stockholders have fared thinly in recent years, had developed a photoelectric indicator ("robot eye") which, by judging the color and brilliance of a Bessemer heat better than human eyes can, made it possible to turn out steel with Bessemer rapidity but of a uniform quality comparable to that of the open-hearth product. The J. & L. researchers guarded their secret vigilantly, declared darkly not long ago that two other companies had tried to swipe...
...ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed a new way of getting manganese into steel to make it nonporous on cooling, then the Bessemer automatic eye...
...Derby. Gilded Knight was on his heels, stride for stride. Coming into the homestretch, Challedon, who had been trailing the leaders, flew past them in a splatter of mud, crossed the finish line a length and a half-in front of Gilded Knight. Mighty Johnstown, with mud in his eye, strolled in next to last, almost ear to ear with last-place Ciencia, only filly in the race...
...Mother's Day in Chicago, Mrs. William Feller sat, proudly beaming, in a box, watching her son Bob Feller, 20-year-old star Cleveland pitcher, blast Chicago's White Sox. Pock! A White Sox batsman fouled. The ball took Mother Feller in the eye, opened a six-stitch gash...