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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public Eye. In Atlanta, police, who had been looking for Al G. Moriarty for two years, found and arrested him when he announced his candidacy for Georgia's General Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Britain's Dr. William Samuel Inman, eye surgeon and psychoanalyst, has some ideas on curing warts that might have come right out of the Mark Twain pharmacopoeia. In the issue of Lancet that reached the U.S. last week, Inman told of a 13 -year-old boy who came to him with ten warts on his thumb. Dr. Inman told him to touch the tip of his tongue to each wart every morning because saliva is peculiarly poisonous to warts, but not to tell anybody. The warts went away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spunk-Water & Psychoanalysis | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Riefenstahl's Olympische Spiele, for all its fake slants and supermanic chest-beating, was by far the best and most exhaustive sports record ever put on film. She used 40 to 60 cameras with a fine, eye for crisis and sidelight, pageantry and crowd, and assembled them with one of the world's most striking talents for cutting. To handle Britain's film, Rank has hired bouncing, white-haired little Castleton Knight, 54, head of Gaumont British News, who did the Technicolor films of the royal wedding and the royal wedding presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olympics--Ltd. | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Crew | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...time, Judge Sewall noted his gifts to the Widow Denison: "K. Georges Effigies in Copper ... A pound of Raisins and Proportionate Almonds . . . A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence." He admitted to himself that "My bowels yern towards Mrs. Denison," but added, perhaps with an eye to her lack of money, "I think God directs me in his Providence to desist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Hell to Gout | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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