Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team will be built around Captain George Hauptfuhrer who set a Crimson all-time scoring record of 398 points last year, and will feature such newcomers as Erv Tomsovic, who caught assistant coach Lloyd Harper's eye during summer workouts, and Walt McCurdy, voted "the outstanding basketball player in Naval athletics" after becoming high scorer for the Iowa Seahawks, Navy national champions...
...eagerly embraced Chemistry in 1940 with an eye to an Army commission, but now wants to study Languages sits on the hottest part of the griddle. What seemed expedient in wartime now becomes useless for Concentration. Science credits plus service work combine in a knotty problem that leaves the student frustrated and angry. Since the problems of men with less than eight terms at college have been so effectively solved, the future would indicate an attempt to aid those who, technically, have received a full education, but cannot quite resign themselves...
This spring, Pat O'Brien began to write about a new topic-his illness. From a hospital, he kept up his column with the aid of a dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308." Some of his readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property...
Under the watchful eye of Congress, these five would exercise "reasonably liberal authority" to 1) determine the type and amount of aid to be allocated to various nations; 2) extend aid in kind as well as in money, and buy needed goods in the world's cheapest markets; 3) decide how much European nations shall contribute to their own reconstruction. Above all, the corporation would check up continuously to make sure that U.S. aid was not being misused. In short, he wanted a sort of super-WPB to run the whole thing. With such a businesslike approach, Aldrich thought...
...work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many of its idiosyncrasies and limits. Sociable man, social problems, middle-class humor, the didactic habit, the club culture, the horseplay, the gregarious rather than the single eye...