Word: eye
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make sure that it is not suffering from some hidden malady, let them call in consultation as medical advisers, the Justices of the Supreme Court. What would be their decision, and what has it been in similar cases in the past? That the patient may have received a black eye, or been bruised or otherwise maltreated by some belligerent in the war, but that its pulse is as strong, its brain as clear, and its voice as authoritative as before it read its own obituary. And to add weight to their diagnosis they would issue a bulletin, assuring the world...
Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary: G. F. Jewett '19, J. G. F. Lynch...
...true that that accomplishment is far more splendid than the recounting? Was Achilles, Arcades, the ignorant, surly feller of men in battles, greater than Homer, who saw all of the known world, and beyond to the Pillars of Hercules, with a dreamer's eye? Was Henry the Fifth greater than Shakespeare, and Arthur greater than Tennyson...
...College routine, has brought the embryo soldier back from the military cloudland in which he has been wandering for the past two weeks of uninterrupted drill. Class-rooms are something to which he has become inured by long training. Much as he may tremble on the field before the eye of the omniscent instructor, once safe behind the first-line trenches of a bench in a Sever Hall room, he feels himself master of his own destiny. The instructor is there to find out how little he knows. He is there to show how much...
Such an accusation, however hidden, coming at this period is barely decent. The examining officers know the physical and mental abilities of some hundreds of would-be officers who, keeping a wise weather eye on the draft bill, decided they would rather carry an officer's sabre than a private's rifle, although they had not the physical stamina to carry either on parade, nor the moral stamina to carry either in battle. It is largely such men who are now whimpering that they were not chosen. It need not be said whether their first thought is for their country...