Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casualty on the battlefield of St. Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services...
...mother made all her clothes. She was the kind of little girl who was nev.er mussed or wrinkled. She kept dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and white mice, and played the piano. The boy who used to be a neighbor still proudly displays a scar over his left eye where Barbara Ann hit him with a shovel: it is one of the few unladylike acts ever recorded against her; and the boy is now convinced that he must have been in the wrong...
...tenants (330 families) in spacious duplexes, all prefabricated and slipped into place like drawers into an empty desk. The outer walls will be mostly glass, and finlike shades will protect them from the Mediterranean sun, a stunt Le Corbusier had tried in Rio de Janeiro. "Just as the human eye can stand the sun because it has eyelashes," says Le Corbusier, "rationally oriented sunbreaks will admit only those rays that bring pleasant warmth and cheer in every season...
...looked like the biggest eyepopper was Western Maryland Railway Co., which earned $7.34 a share last year, and sold last week at $10. The catch, as in many low-priced stocks, was that its arrears ($136) on preferred stock had to be paid before common stockholders got anything. Another eye-opener was American Woolen Co., which earned an estimated $15 last year and actually paid out $10 in dividends, but last week sold...
Professor Kluckhohn insisted that human families throughout the world are all organized as to form and function in essentially the same manner. No matter how weird or barbaric certain family structures may seem to the western eye, they are all really "variations on a basic theme...