Word: eyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uses glass tubes one five-thousandth of an inch in diameter which he inserts into the tiny bores of capillaries. The manner in which capillary blood rises in those tubes has thrown a considerable light on how heart disease causes dropsy, how kidney diseases develop, how a bruised eye turns black & blue. For this information the College of Physicians gave Dr. Landis their best prize a gold medal...
...Police by fouling the gill nets of salmon poachers, was christened Sergeant Finnegan. Prevented from getting any rest by Oregon City crowds, it humped itself onto a fisherman's house boat, peered in a window and got three charges of buckshot in the face and neck, blinding one eye. It finally climbed a fish ladder beside the falls, roistered on up the Willamette, switched to the Pudding River and then started cross-country through Farmer Alben Erickson's pasture...
...time somebody stepped in and told them what to do. And don't let anybody kid you, telling you you're not the one to do it. Anybody that can get along in politics the way you did is bound to be right. And you have to keep your eye on those college boys, because pretty soon they're going to be voting, and if you don't see to it that they know what's what, who will? The Dartmouth, Sat., March...
...rosy take on the stark grimness of reality. True, dangers of the paths are now abolished, but at the sacrifice of an undergraduate prerogative which except for the heart-rending interregnum of the Lowell regime has lasted since Lallement got his patent in 1866. In the wink of an eye a tradition of three-quarters of a century is brought crashing to the ground...
...before. It probably lies as near the boundary of personal reminiscence as that of any other field, but even there it is transformed by a new point of view--new at least in a serious work for adults. With but a few digressions, the point of view is the eye of a fox, a fox traced from his birth to the last hunt in a country where fox hunting is life. This thread of unity is broken only by several brief and splendidly executed vignettes of South Carolina plantation life, cockfighting, whopper-telling, and a few poignant sequences depicting with...