Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends...
...Advocate cover, emblazoned with a red pheonix rising from smouldering ashes, harbors the short stories, essays, and poems selected by the editors and editorial candidates with an eye on "reader interest." Contrary to the earliest practices of the Advocate, the board has made itself a critical rather than a creative part of the magazine and is already looking for manuscripts for the April issue...
Diagnosis. Since 1937, Dr. Center and her staff have taught 5,000 children and adults at the clinic. First comes diagnosis. The clinicians check to see whether eye trouble is to blame. Then an ophthalmograph photographs the student's eye movements as he reads: how often he pauses on a word or goes back to reread, whether he reads smoothly or in jerks. The clinic also runs the student through a barrage of speed, comprehension, vocabulary, intelligence and psychological tests, uncovers victims of emotional blocks (e.g., jealousy, insecurity) and "mixed dominance" (a brain twist that makes some people read...
...geology, the "new science" which the oil business was just getting interested in. Gene also got interested. He spent a year after graduation studying geology at the University of Texas and then a hitch as a corporal in the U.S. Signal Corps in World War I. He caught the eye of Wallace Pratt, then Standard's top geologist, who hired Gene to work fin its subsidiary, Humble Oil Co. There Holman again impressed the right person-William Stamps Parish, Humble's president. In a short time he was made boss of Humble's Shreveport office. When Holman...
...real eye-opener was the price...