Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress had given him much of the rigging he had ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since...
...Jimmy is a specialist in everything-life, fire, marine, air and group insurance. . . . The insurance fraternity is as startled . . . as the medical fraternity would be if a youngster who had never attended a medical school suddenly turned out to be America's greatest specialist in the eye, ear, nose and throat, in abdominal and pulmonary surgery, in obstetrics, pediatrics and chiropody...
...Goldwyn-Mayer). Freddie Bartholomew, who was temporarily out of the courts last week, has his difficulties in real life, but they are not to be compared with the miseries of his childhood in the cinema. He experienced beatings and neglect in David Copperfield, seasickness in Captains Courageous, a black eye in Little Lord Fauntleroy and kidnapping in Kidnapped. To this imposing list, Lord Jeff adds nothing more grueling than a sojourn in a foundling's home, which Cinemactor Bartholomew endures with his accustomed fortitude. The result is scarcely scintillating or surprising, but provides acceptable entertainment for those who have...
...star reported last week is so far away that it is not even in the Milky Way galaxy, 600 quadrillion miles in diameter, to which the solar system and all stars visible to the naked eye belong. In it the neutrons are so closely packed, according to Zwicky, that the density reaches the enormous figure of 6,000,000 tons to the cubic inch. Since the General Theory of Relativity imposes limits on stellar masses, Zwicky's new star must be exceedingly small to compensate for its high density. The astronomer estimates its diameter at no more than...
This accurate historical novel of Baron Ungern-Sternberg's last days is for readers whose literary will power is as strong as their stomachs. Written in the tradition of the conventional Russian novel, with almost eye-witness vividness, it ranks in intensity if not in scope with Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front...