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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eye View. In Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo monkeys were depressed by the newfangled glass in front of their cages-the crowds could look in, but the monkeys couldn't look out-until they found that dousing the lights again allowed them to observe the funny people outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...grisly news of the eucalyptus grove quickly spread through a land which had learned to expect an eye for an eye. Panicky Jews prepared to flee from Natanya. British troops grew sullen, angry, dangerous. That night, in Tel Aviv, British soldiers on foot and in armored cars lashed out in an unsoldierly demonstration. They smashed windows, beat Jews, fired Sten guns into a crowded bus. Five Jews were killed, 15 wounded. Next day, at the funeral for the five dead, mourners and police clashed again. The toll: 33 Jews injured. Said one resident of Natanya: "This cancels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Eye for an Eye for an Eye | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

When Don Mishara, maestro selected to do the musical honors for the Lowell House dance this Friday, breaks into the strains of "Lost Without You" by Walter P. Burrier '50, it will doubtless bring a wistful tear into the eye of the author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night in Rome Plus Girl Back Home Still Leaves Music Publishers Frigid | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

...York Times ad last week, Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue ecstatically hailed one of its new styles: "How bewitching to the eye, how becoming to the figure, these lovely elongated lines . . . from a prophetic group of fall silhouettes." Those who glanced at the side view illustration of the new fall silhouette were startled to behold a long-skirted, skinny female with obtruded stomach, her profile resembling a collage of boomerangs and an aged orange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Bewitching? | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Madison, Wis., University Student Bill DeHaven reported to the infirmary with a gashed cheek and black eye, explained that while lying on the grass with a lady friend he was scampered over by a rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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