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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always doing it," said his Duchess later. "He's very clever at it." "The Duke," commented the awed Evening Standard, "has a remarkable eye. He is one of the leading shots in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blood Will Tell | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...counting the Times-Herald and her huge interest in the McCormick-Patterson Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News. Who would inherit all this? The first in line: her daughter, Felicia Gizycka and Granddaughter Ellen Cameron Pearson Arnold, child of Columnist Drew Pearson and apple of Cissie's eye. But nobody would inherit her deadly hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cissie | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Farmers began to gather at John Brown's farm to stare with the worshiping eyes of religious devotees. Behind the house was a shed with a sign: "Cell Laboratories-Natural Sciences." The cellar of the house contained three barrels covered with scraps of awning. To the uninitiated eye, the barrels seemed to hold only stagnant water, but Brown would murmur: "This is Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Miracle of Middleboro | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Into Washington last week trooped the first trade commission ever to come to the U.S. from Tibet. The five members of the commission wore eye-catching yellow brocade kimonos (over regular summer-weight suits) as they sat down to discuss their business with the Department of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Whiskers for St. Nick | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...Secret Service boys" pried into the presidential steaks and fillets; members of the Fine Arts Commission studied the least new drape with a beady eye; maintenance officers checked the smallest bill. Breakfast began at 6 a.m., ended at noon, when lunch began. It was hard to tell how much silver there was, because visitors not only pocketed the monogrammed spoons and forks but even managed to get away with large trays and colonial bowls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secretary of the Interior | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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