Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term as Governor of Indiana ended a year ago, Paul McNutt is naturally anxious that his claims as a candidate for President shall not be forgotten. So on his first return to the U. S. his supporters found it incumbent upon them to keep him in the public eye. His trip from Manila to the White House (to report on Far Eastern affairs) was therefore designed on the order of a Roman triumph...
This new pigment operates in one type of cone on the retina of the chicken's eye. In this one type of cone it has been found that the color filters and photosensitive substance are present making it a miniature color camera...
...student thanked her and went in. The first painting was a portrait of a matador. One eye was green and the other was orange. The student turned to the bric-a-brac. There was a woman's show, a brick, and a twisted piece of iron. On a table across the room was a pamphlet, and the student walked over, laying odds that it was one of Gertrude Stein's little jobs. He picked it up and read the title, "Annual Report of the President to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University...
...careless, youthful twinkle in you eye...
...millions of miles of successful operation over the Caribbean, around South America and across the Pacific, Pan American Airways proved to itself that "the bigger the airplane is the more efficient it can be made." The P. A. A. began to eye the Atlantic and ran into the toughest competition in its history. Europe's crack lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Air France and Imperial Airways-all richer than P. A. A. because their Governments directly subsidize them-had plans for the same ocean. But none had over-ocean passenger planes. Three years ago P. A. A. called for ships that...