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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frightful Film | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Whose Eye? This first week's work was plainly unsatisfying to the Congressional inquisitors. "Is that all?'' asked Senator La Follette. "Aren't you going to discuss the incorporated yacht?'' asked Congressman Frank Crowther of Schenectady. "Let's have some information, not a Roman holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Spelling Bee | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...ours. It has nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, optic and reproductive systems, and the beauty of it is that the animal is perfectly transparent so you can see everything that is happening, from the digestion of its food and the beating of its heart to the working of its eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flea | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Frankensteen has convinced me, through personal observation, that he surely has courage aplenty to make him a good communist, but does not see eye-to-eye with the Communist Daily Worker. LAWRENCE EMERY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Chance" moved last year from his rambling house on the Vanderbilt campus to a new home in Nashville's grassy Belle Meade, where besides keeping a close eye on Successor Carmichael he can devote more time to raising his black irises, known by his name to most U. S. horticulturists. The "Chance" also likes fishing, shooting ducks at his camp in Magnetawan, Ont., discussing anything under the sun with his wife Mary, listening to prize fight broadcasts with his son-in-law, Professor Benjamin Meritt of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kirkland crotchets include a dislike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chance Out | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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