Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was the end of a careful, lengthy investigation of the fashion industry. Since Mme. Schiaparelli appeared on TIME'S cover in the issue of August 13, 1934, no fashion designer had landed there. Early last summer, however, it appeared to Purtell, who keeps his eye on the world of fashion, that the new styles were about to become big news. Obviously, that was a Business story. After a candid examination of the industry, Designer Sophie Gimbel was chosen to illuminate what fashion was up to this time. The cover was scheduled for September, the month that ushers...
Measuring the Eye. In Army & Navy bombers, they made unprecedented clinical studies of a hurricane's doughnutlike anatomy. They took temperature readings and measured wind velocities (up to 150 m.p.h.). They even flew through the tempestuous outer wind-swirl into the doughnut's windless, cloudless central "eye" (TIME, Sept. 22). By radar, they found that the eye was 25 miles in diameter...
Damage ran into millions of dollars. Two radio towers were toppled at Fort Lauderdale (where, in the lull of the eye's passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...
...long time after he left the hospital, few suspected the tryst he kept in his comfortable, $50,000 English-style home in The Bronx. He read voluminously, kept an eye on politics, wrote his weekly opinionated column in the newspaper PM. But last month he warned friends that he would not live much longer. Last week he fell into a coma, slept deeply for four days, rousing only once to drink a little orange juice and to speak a few words with his wife, Marie, and his two adopted children, Jean, 18 and Eric...
During the summer, the Harvard Cooperative Society, with an eye to improving business relations, remodeled its upper floor to accumulate registrants trying to buy their required reading books...