Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When it arrived, Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, skimmed through the lengthy preamble and rested his eye fondly on the conclusion: "I have the honor, in accordance with Article 1 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to formulate herewith, in the name of the German Government, a proposal for the admission of Germany to the League of Nations...
...Another television experimenter is C. Francis Jenkins, of Washington, D. C., whose "radio eye" employs a battery of mirrors (instead of Baird's revolving lenses) to break up images for photo-electric transmission (TIME, April 7, 1923; June...
Valisan of Vladeska, Russian wolfhound, sheer white except for a black patch over his eye. He stalked negligently around the ring, content to give the rabble the privilege of seeing, for once, an aristocrat in ermine. J. Allen Dunn, novelist, judged this class, adeptly weeding out all those dogs which looked too much like the trademark of Publisher Alfred Knopf...
Students of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts have long lamented, over their bocks and tasses, the monotonous homeliness of the women which the institute employs as models. Dreary matrons, uncorseted and nude, do not excite the eye, the hand or the nerves, they complained. Recently they talked about having a strike. The revolt was quenched, but the dissatisfaction lived on. Last week some 20 students were given the exercise of sketching, in a classic pose, a pendulous woman well known to several generations of Beaux Artists. They worked busily. In half an hour the master called for the sketches, discovered...
...high priest of these two temples, is a genial, bumbling man with a blue twinkle in his eye, a carefree mustache and a knobbly walking stick. He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra. Few Princeton graduates could tell you which temple is the home of the American Whig and which of the Cliosophical Society, but any Princeton man could single out from 10,000 public speaking professors, the memorable face and figure of Professor Harry F. Covington...