Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first book, at 24, The International Share-Out, caught Editor Crowther's eye in 1938; she has written for his Economist off & on ever since, and is now assistant editor on foreign affairs. On the BBC "Brains Trust" program (the English equivalent of Information Please) Laborite Barbara was one participant who never said "I don't know." Audiences loved her for her quiz-kid memory. Between broadcasts she lectured on politics and economics, labored for the liberal Roman Catholic "Sword of the Spirit" movement...
...Methodist Council of Bishops, meeting 40-strong near Los Angeles last week, discovered a familiar mote in the eye of their Roman Catholic brethren. "The Roman Catholic Church," they declared in a committee report adopted by the council, "should cease to misinform the American people by affirmations of loyalty to democratic ideals when deliberately denying religious freedom wherever it has power...
Rather than have their British profits reduced, many cinemoguls would prefer to see Rank make more money in the U.S. Though he is competing with the U.S., the competition has sometimes seemed so friendly that the antitrust division of the Department of Justice has cocked a suspicious eye at monopoly-minded Mr. Rank. As he said: "In my heart I have a great desire to cooperate with our American friends." And one of the friends has said: "We aren't looking for a fight. We want something like a marriage...
What commands in this work is its contribution to an understanding of the most sordid and emotional side of war and of the lives of the men who fight it. No American with a conscience, no American with an eye to the past and an ear to the future can ignore it. These fifty-three may not be full-grown Hemingways, Dos Passos, or Remarques, but in their simplicity and humanness they have reached points of literary clarity and feeling that are difficult to surpass...
Baseball teams from Harvard had a bad weekend as the Varsity at Princeton lost its batting eye and dropped 3 to 2 and 1 to 0 games to Pennsylvania and Princeton. At Soldiers Field the Yardling nine dropped a 5 to 3 decision to the Yale Freshmen, and the Jayvee team over whelmed their New Haven counterparts...