Word: bausch
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SOFT CONTACT LENSES Otto Wichterle, a Czech scientist, created the first soft contact lens in 1961, using an Erector set and a phonograph motor. Bausch & Lomb bought the rights to his process for a reported $3 million...
Underachievers Some of the Focus List's worst performers Bausch & Lomb K Mart The Limited Loews Corp. Reebok Silicon Graphics...
Included in the biographical notes on the writers anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1997 are brief commentaries concerning the inspiration for their works. Some are purely anecdotal--Robert Bausch's detailing how a conversation about childhood bullying became the genesis for the bitingly funny "Nobody in Hollywood"--but most are insightful glimpses into the writers' imaginations, oftentimes offering prose that is as strikingly poetic as that found in their fiction...
When the dead King Hamlet himself finally does appear, he wears pale blue contact lenses, which make him look more frightening than the smoke would suggest. But King Hamlet's unfortunate run-in with Bausch and Lomb makes little sense and loses its effect when the living King Hamlet appears during one of the many flashback montages later on--wearing the same lenses and looking just as ethereal and possessed as he did when dead...
Rosenthal founded Polymer Technology, and latersold it to Bausch & Lomb, Inc. He has been doingresearch on the lens since the 1970s