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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...angular-winded woman, who, when she has herded a group of sightseers into the President's room, points at a female figure painted on the ceiling, and chants in a nasal sing-song that can be heard down the outer corridors: "And that lady there is called the Eye of Gawd, yes, the Eye of Gawd. An' if you wonder why she is so called, just walk around the desk here, yes, this way around, follow me, watch the Eye of Gawd, it follows us around, wherever we go, sees you, sees me, sees everything we do, follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eye of Gawd | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Directly over the Eye of Gawd room is the Senate press gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eye of Gawd | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...past months have been brilliant with scientific achievement; vistas have opened up which dazzle the mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Eye-worthy, last week in the U. S., were several cinemas imported from foreign shores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Invasion | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...General Education Board keeps an eagle eye for deserving universities, colleges, schools. It gives them, not buildings or grounds, but endowments for higher faculty salaries, new chairs, departments, special lines of research. It has also aided the public schools in the rural sections of the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ledger Man | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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