Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brisk, efficient Guy Thomas Buswell has been photographing readers' eye movements at the University of Chicago since 1920 and has had as much to do as any man with developing new wrinkles in teaching children how to read. Three years ago Guy Thomas Buswell decided that children were not the only ones who needed instruction. He rounded up 1,000 adults of varying degrees of literacy and for two years tested them intensively. He wanted to find out what happens to people's reading habits and ability after they leave school. Last week his report, How Adults Read...
...swayed there, preening himself. With the aid of the mirror he cast an eye over the unfamiliar territory at the nape of his neck, and noted with pleasure that the hair removed from that vicinity by a crew cut last October was already coming in nicely. His eyes, too, be noticed. They drooped at just the right angle for a fellow who's studying up until eleven or twelve at night to keep from getting "bounced out of the old place...
...Dyck type of head, with high forhead, strong chin and a glance of intense alertness. What is most remarkable is the vivid sense of life. This is created largely by an emphasis on the personal incidentals, the pupil of the eye, the crowsfeet and wrinkles, the wart on the cheek...
...Quite as far removed from strictly union business as a third-term boom was the main drama of high labor politics in which John L. Lewis was engaged. It was a drama played on a revolving stage in which the scene shifted back & forth in the twinkling of an eye between the old Rialto Theatre in Washington and the Hotel Everglades in Miami. For simultaneously with the Mine Workers' Convention in Washington, William Green was holding the quarterly meeting of the A. F. of L. Executive Council in Florida...
...Calif, board of city directors last week passed an ordinance decreeing that any dog owner seen on the streets with a dog would be fined $500 or jailed six months. Instanter Pasadena dog owners complained, first among them one of the city's three blind men with Seeing Eye dogs. The ordinance was quickly amended to permit leashed dogs on the streets...