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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were needed, that the WAVES are a built-in, war & peace feature of the U.S. military establishment. The Navy approved for WAVE officers an all-out braid & fixings evening uniform. Designed by Main-bocher, it was intended to be "feminine and official at the same time." To the civilian eye, the outfit looked from the waist down like an 1890 Gibson girl; from the waist up, like a chorus girl in tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Officially Feminine | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...skill at throwing footballs he takes almost for granted. Says Albert, casually: "When I go back to pass, first I look for the man called for. I've probably got my eye on the man-in-motion. If he's covered, I look for the ends. If they're covered, I run with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Left-Hander | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...battles were painted almost entirely from hearsay, which did not necessarily interfere with their quality as art. Thomas Birch's oil of the set-to between the United States and the British Macedonian in 1812 had a familiar and a handsome air. It was the fish's-eye view typical of the period-splendid, stormy and bloodless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Oil & Salt | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Small (5 ft. 3 in.) and expensively dressed, "Miz Patterson" (as her staff calls her) keeps a purposeful brown eye on everything from editorial cartoons to finishing touches on Newsday's new plant in Garden City, L.I. She works in her small office off the city room from 10:30 a.m. to cocktail time. From the vast Guggenheim chateau at Port Washington or their bandbox house in Manhattan, her deceptively lazy drawl often calls pink-cheeked Managing Editor Alan Hathway, a Daily News alumnus, at any hour of the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captain's Daughter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...this afternoon when you cheer the blend of fife and tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flavor Lasts | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

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