Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many undergraduates the function of public speaking is considered confined to a certain small group of students who enjoy talking in general and the public eye in particular. And yet it is a mistake for educated men to begin life in the world beyond the University without being versed in the simple laws of speaking. This course, though labelled Public Speaking, is not intended to train men to be future Websters, Henrys, or Sewards The training of the course affords students who can face a group of persons without embarrassment, and present information that is clearly thought...
TIME did not confuse its Danas. Publisher Charles Anderson Dana entered Harvard in 1839, left in 1841 because of poor eyesight, did not return. Author Richard Henry Dana entered Harvard in 1831, left in 1833 because of eye trouble, returned in 1836, graduated...
...sharp eye of President Roosevelt last week focused upon women's high button shoes. Along with rubbers, corsets, kimonos, camisoles, stockings, dresses, cotton drawers, aprons, bloomers, lingerie, hairpins, princess slips and plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision...
...Champion Jack Sharkey, fatter and more surly looking than last July when he lost his title to Primo Camera, climbed into a ring opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump blow after blow...
...fashionable lists will see that Capone is set free. Capone would no doubt like to round off the Century of Progress with a riotous New Year's eve on the Loop. But for the present, while the injured Kingfish and the tottering financier are still in the public eye, the pretender to the medal is in jail, and the modal itself is locked for good in the Museum of the American Numismatic Society...