Word: eyeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...educational principles are to continue to advance along the lines already plotted at Harvard cooperation in all branches of the University must be secured. The rules of the University must be secured. The rules of the University have been altered with an eye to these modern ideas, to carry out the full meaning of these changes must be the work of the faculty who in their courses should co-operate with these alterations and eliminate the necessity of annoying mid-term checkups...
...heavenly bodies except the sun and the moon. The "new stars" occur only as the result of the greatest catastrophes that have occurred within the universe in history, explosions within stars, which may increase their brightness 10,000 times. They sometimes become quite bright to the naked eye, but fade from sight as the disturbance subsides. The one seen by Tycho disappeared after six months. Four or five bright ones have been discovered since the turn of the century...
...high. The heavy artillery swung into action as Washington started an investigation into the affairs of the Telephone Company. whistling bravely, President Gifford, head of the company, stated that he welcomed the probe, but the fact of the matter remains that others do not seem to see eye to eye with him. His stock slipped drearily some 11 points. At the same time the utility average registered a new all-time low, some points below the old bear market barrier. Some day, when the utility stocks have passed into nobler and purer hands, we may again become bullish on them...
With a gleam in his eye, but without his flashing smile, he boarded the train that took him back from Hyde Park to Washington. On the train he received his entourage of newshawks. Sitting erect, foursquare, with the bearing of a victor, he answered questions, but declined, with the same gleam in his eye, to speak of his victory. His only post-election comment was a commendatory reference to an editorial by Editor Cleveland Rodgers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.* Whether uncrowned King, Moses, or lover, he was going forth to play his part with the confidence that his part...
Very different in character are the works of Kandinsky and Klee. The former seeks a refuge from modern life through a play of abstract form and colour. Squares, triangles and circles carefully arranged make balanced colour compositions that gladden the eye but never attack the intellect or the emotions. Klee's refuge is in dreams. Like the surrealists, he portrays vague images conjured up from the subconscious and paints them with a tongue-in-the-cheek seriousness that has been completely misunderstood by his lugubrious colleagues in Paris. Nolde, like the sculptor Lehmbruck, is German in his intensity and paints...