Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion picture method, by projecting phrases across the screen according to the movements and pauses of the eyes of a skilled reader, the poor reader is made to pace his eyes so as to acquire the eye movements of the superior reader. The rate of projection of the phrases upon the screen is gradually increased, always keeping just a little ahead of the reader...
...Everyman Theatre made no effort to give Goethe's masterpiece the least shred of dignity or meaning. With a leering eye on the box office, it resurrected the Urfaust, that youthful first draft which Goethe himself threw into the wastebasket, and made it the basis for most of the play. To exploit its elephantine slapstick and bawdry, the Everyman sold its own soul to Hellzapoppin: threw in wisecracks about F. D. R., created the impression of medieval monks doing the shag, started a Yale cheer, thought up lines like "Calling all angels." The result was a muddled farce which...
...disappeared from U. S. weather maps. Although the attitude of Canadian weathermen towards their U. S. collaborators continued warm, their forecastings were cloudy, omitted any mention of barometric pressure. Chief U. S. Weatherman Francis Wilton Reichelderfer was nothing daunted. Said he, U. S. meteorologists have developed such a weather-eye technique that lack of Canadian reports will not seriously affect U. S. forecasts. Most U. S. weather is brewed in the Gulf of Mexico, or somewhere on the vast North American hinterland south of Alaska, and most U. S. storms move from west to east...
...impetuous, romantic rise from the little West Kansas town where he was raised, son of a crack Union Pacific railroad engineer, Walter Chrysler had done something more than pull himself up by his bootstraps. Like most other successful U. S. businessmen he had picked his subordinates with unerring eye. And while he was sick and out of the game, no Chrysler stockholder suffered...
...steelmen, about the rising price and shortened supplies of their raw material, began to exert political pressure on Washington to halve the 4? a pound copper tariff, in order to unfix the copper market by bringing 6 to 8? Chilean and Canadian Copper in. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his eye on scrap and steel as much as on copper, addressed another letter to Wyoming's Senator Joseph ("Dear Joe") O'Mahoney, charged his Temporary National Economic Committee to guard against price profiteering. This time the President meant business...