Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crew rowed three miles this morning, while the other crews took longer rows of five miles apiece. In the afternoon the first eights went to the three-mile mark trying racing starts under the eye of Coach Brown, while the Jayvees repeated the same performance shortly after...
...wanted Regault's painting "Salome"; Mr. Baker presented it. It wanted money; he gave $1,000,000. Cornell University asked for dormitories and chemical laboratories, and got $2,000,000 from Mr. Baker. And thus it has gone: $750,000 to New York Hospital, $100,000 to Johns Hopkins Eye Clinic, $250,000 to New England Deaconess Association, $250,000 to Manhattan's Natural History Museum...
...Eye the list (see p. 51) of U. S. colleges and universities, and individuals upon whom they this year bestow kudos. The name of one great university is missing. It is missing every year. Cornell University gives no honorary degrees...
...States with gumption sufficient to erect their own places of higher education. The youngest member of the New York State Senate in 1864 was Andrew Dickson White, then 32. Among the elder Senators was a man whom Senator White described as "tall, spare and austere; with a kindly eye, saying little and that dryly. He did not appear unamiable but there seemed in him an aloofness; this was Ezra Cornell...
...previous World Fairs have had vast classic façades which wearied the eye; interminable promenades which wearied the feet; monotonous planning, usually in squares, which wearied the mind. The Chicago planners are determined to permit none of these fatiguing conventions. Architecture will be imaginative rather than historical. Transportation will be ubiquitous (monorails, moving sidewalks, boats). Planning will be organic, molding the entire Fair into an architectural unit...