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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course will cost $15, although the college will make reductions when necessary. Enrollment will be strictly limited to 88 men who will be divided into 4 sections of 22 each. The sections will have two 45 minute sessions a week for 10 weeks. Each student will receive an eye and ear examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Receive New Reading Instruction to Raise Eye Speed | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...experiment, a group of sixteen Freshmen showed marked improvement in reading skill and some advance in scholastic standing, after eight weeks of special training last fall. They increased their reading speed by 50 percent, gained in reading accuracy, and altered for the better their habits of eye movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Receive New Reading Instruction to Raise Eye Speed | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter Glass for 30 years) as Norfolk customs collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...pure & simple Lindbergh when, with his wife and Mr. & Mrs. Lewis, he repaired to the Carlton Hotel suite in Washington where MBS, NBC and CBS had set up their microphones. He greeted all the announcers and technicians, with his mechanic's eye pried into the electrical arrangements, wanted particularly to know whether telephones would be ringing during the broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hero Speaks | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...forgot his boxing orders and set out to get even. From then on he never had a chance. Tony butted, gouged, rabbit-punched, hit high & low, dropped Lou with two lefts and an airplane spin, dropped him again and bounced on him, thumbed Lou's badly cut right eye and heeled it with his glove lacing, swung so hard with his murderous left that his pants almost fell off. Finally, late in the 14th, with quartfuls of blood on the canvas, on the referee's shirt, all over Tony & Lou, Referee George Blake stopped it, with Galento leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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