Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond was not getting on with his book. Perhaps lie had better take time out for a cigarette. He closed over the covers of the volume, but in doing so his eye happened to catch on the inside front page. Here was pasted a dedication notice, to the memory of some past Harvard graduate who had left money to the library. Underneath this bookplate was another notice. The Vagabond gasped as he read the following legend...
...doctors in the U. S. may call himself a specialist, and some 25,000 do. The American Medical Association takes the word of its members and lists them in the Directory as surgeons, or public health specialists, or obstetricians, sensitively differentiating ophthalmologists (eyes) and otorhinolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat) from ophthalmo-otorhino-laryngologists (eye-ear-nose-throat). Chief criterion for specialists, other than their say-so, has been membership in one of the multitude of learned societies in Canada or the U. S.. such as the American Association of Obstetricians. Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons, or the Central Society for Clinical Research...
...goes for hospitals' charges, 12% for administration expenses of the service, the balance into reserve. During the four years since these hospital services developed subscribers paid $7,681,517 to hospitals. $1,230,000 to administration, banked $1.331,000 in reserve. To lay heads together, chiefly with an eye to putting another 1,200,000 names on their books this year, the youngish directors of the 60 U. S. hospital service plans now functioning held their first national convention in Manhattan last week...
...first issue only five stories were over one column in length (Calvin Coolidge ever after referred to TIME stories as "eye-tems"), and although it was published in a busy week when Congress was winding up a session, spot news of the week received scant mention. Gradually TIME style developed. Gradually more and more news, with its background and significance, was put into TIME. As money was earned it was spent to improve the quality of the magazine. The editorial cost of producing an issue of TIME is today just about 50 times as great as 15 years...
...system which depends on fast, clever ball-handling working in toward the basket. Sudden breaks by one of the forwards provide the scoring punch, with tall John Herrick stationed under the basket to tip in any shot that misses he center of the rim. When the players have the "eye", the system is unbeatable. In the same way, a great deal of the team's success depends on whether Herrick has the touch to bat the ball...