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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tough as the Nazis. Before the Führer grabs new lands and riches his lieutenants generally stage numerous frontier "incidents" which are supposed to show that the Führer's patience is being taxed by cruel treatment of his people in the territory he has his eye on. The Poles played the same game. When the German press described a "mass flight" of Germans from Polish "terrorism," Poles charged that hundreds of their citizens were being driven daily from Silesia and East Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Friends & Foes | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

TenBroek was blinded at the are of 7 when an arrow shot by a playmate penetrated his eye. The accident did not deter him from a scholastic and legal career in which he has won high honors...

Author: By The UNITED Press), | Title: Blind Law Student Receives Brandeis Fellowship; Wife Serves as His Eyes | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

...firemen. Overhead roared nine flying fortresses, 42 Army pursuit ships. Drawn up from the Capitol to Union Station were more soldiers, and filling the station plaza were cavalry, 30 tanks, a battery of artillery. General Murray looked at all these preparations, for which he was responsible, with anxious, critical eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wonderful Turnout | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Honest John" Backer's friends have kept a hard eye on Ohio's Republican Boss Ed Schorr, who may be able to name the Favorite Son. Last week Ed Schorr was reported to have made his choice. It was not John Bricker but Bob Taft, who is well up in the polls, is at the top in the perhaps wishful ratings of Republican strategists in Washington. The Gallup Poll last week published results of a check on radio listeners who tuned in Bob Taft's debates with pro-New Deal Congressman-Professor T. V. Smith of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ohio's Eighth? | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...curious glasses give him a somewhat Martian appearance. The left lens is so thick it is almost a hemisphere, and to focus it is necessary for him to throw back his head slightly when looking at people. Ten years ago, Joyce could not see with his left eye at all, and a cataract was beginning to form on the right eye. Every operation on the left eye caused a hemorrhage. Finally Dr. Alfred Vogt of Zurich succeeded in making an artificial pupil for the left eye, set in below the position of the normal pupil. The cataract on Joyce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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