Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...
Ideas & Ideals. But all the bravos in South America and in Turin, where he conducted next, couldn't have kept Toscanini from a job he had his eye on. With his cello under his arm, he scurried to Milan to join the orchestra-as second cellist-that was preparing the premiere of Verdi's new opera, Otello...
...With an eye toward making the city conscious of the group luncheous, banquets, business meetings, and symposium, the Promotion Committee is now arranging for extensive Harvard exhibits and decorations in department store windows and hotel lobbies...
Gnarled police mitts tightened around their billies when four limousines screeched to a halt in front of the director's critical eye. Satisfying neither the director nor the cops, beefy celluloid "capitalists' then piled in and out of their equipages all morning...
Bolles made one other recent change, with an eye to packing the powerful Don Felt into his starting lineup. The ex-stroke candidate now holds down the number two position, while that seat's former occupant, Ted Reynolds, is pulling at a starboard oar one slot down...