Word: eyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department, though placing many students in plan "B", will keep a constant eye on any borderline cases, so that if the work of a student starts to improve, he can be shifted to full tutorial and groomed for honors. There are many men who enter college and waste the first two years, only to wake up in their Junior year and realize the value of honors work. Giving these men a chance to turn over a new leaf will be one of the most note-worthy parts of the new scheme...
Recalling the Macedonian marching rules for a soldier--"keep your eye on two points directly ahead and be in line with them"--Dean Pound said that in marching through life religion must be those two points. "Keep your eye on it," he urged, "and you will walk in a straight line...
...Take It With You to their bosoms had at least a friendly nod for the funny Sycamores' British cousins. First acting prize went to Gladys Henson as the new maid, Beer, a name that suits her perfectly. Her getup, contortions, expressive voicelessness and eye-rolling, best described by what psychiatrists call "heavenly nystagmus," save an otherwise flat and conventional conclusion...
...Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first eight rounds. In the ninth a solid left hook opened a long gash over Thil's right eye. By the next round so much blood was running down Thil's face and trickling through the hair on his chest that Referee Arthur Donovan stepped in, gave Apostoli Thil's title on a technical knockout...
When, in Ulysses, James Joyce succeeded in crowding pre-War Dublin piecemeal through the eye of a verbal needle, he was hailed as the largest literary giant Ireland had ever produced. Seeing a giant, however, is not necessarily believing in him: and Ulysses' gigantic size seemed, to some critics and many lay readers, to conceal a wizened point of view. Readers who are cajoled into the belief that all is big in Brobdignag will find Giant Joyce's Collected Poems an eye opener. For not only are his poems measly in number (50), they seem small potatoes...