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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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What argufies sniveling and piping your eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Speed Queen Burns | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Stratton is well known as one of the country's leading fundamentalists and has been in the public eye frequently During the late presidential campaign he challenged Ex-Governor Smith to a debate on the question of whether a Catholic was disqualified for the presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stratton to Debate | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

Secondly, the Dramatic Club has always considered with an eye to production the dramatic efforts of undergraduates, but it has been impossible to produce any of these plays which have been submitted in the last few years. Most of them have had little or no merit, or if there has been merit, the plays have not been of the kind which local censors could witness unblushingly. Since the days of Professor George P. Baker, Harvard College has taken little or no notice of the drama as a field of instruction until quite recently, with the result that the quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

...encircling the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park were about to burgeon. A soft greenish sentimentality was adrift in the air. Ulysses Simpson Grant III walked out of the long flat Navy building, sniffed the sweet air, drove to the Tidal Basin, examined the cherry tree buds with the expert eye of a lieutenant-colonel of engineers. Then, in his official capacity as Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, he predicted that these famed trees would blossom forth in all their double-flowered, pinkish loveliness on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Grandson Grant | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...lenses for rapid photography of the outer reaches of the Corona. A special Ultra Violet camera is being taken from the Mt. Wilson Observatory, which has a silvered quartz lense especially designed for the purpose of photographing this phenomenon in invisible light of too high frequency to effect the eye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPEDITION TO OBSERVE ECLIPSE OFF TO ORIENT | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

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