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Word: binoculars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Allen Smith, young eye specialist who recently opened offices in Macon, discovered Linton Perry's binocular ambivalence, reported him to Medicine, last week answered queries on the case. By all tests the boy can see just as well whether either or both eyes are in or out of their sockets. But when he first learned his performance, he saw double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye Popper | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth century fire-escapes has long intrigued him. He would hate to have to use them in case of fire, but then, they provide a good roosting place for pigeons. Far to the southwest, with binocular to eye, the Vagabond can spot, on clear days, the small American flag which marks the highest piece of steel in the tower of the new Eliot House, a building which he supposes marks the zenith of the Harvard architectural renaissance. In between stretches a weary waste of brick buildings, some particularly pleasing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/4/1931 | See Source »

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