Word: blurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calm eyes: "What must be asked of the surgeon is not that he should be young, but that he must not be old. When old age appears at the turning of the road, when the sacred fire begins to flicker, and the hand to tremble, and the eye to blur, it is then time that the surgeon should think of rest. Let him then do as 'the tired wayfarer, after a long journey, resting by the wayside, look on and watch the passers-by who have followed him in the rugged, but wondrous road that he, himself, has trod...
...range immense tracts of country at terrific speed. To the human eye, their passing is "of such incredible swiftness that one is utterly unable to initiate any movement whatever toward capture" before they vanish from sight. "Form is not sensed by the eye as they pass, but merely a blur or streak of color, and only a fleeting glimpse of that." Dr. Townsend estimates their speed at upwards of 400 yards a second. Arguing that it is certain that what has been attained by animals in the way of locomotion can be equaled, if not exceeded, by machines; that...
...masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens' "Le Cygne"; played it cleanly, limpidly; let no unwanted sentiment blur its colors...
...whom they will associate they will find a ready, kindly, courteous welcome, a welcome tempered nevertheless at first by a quiet scrutiny, for the foreign colony of the city, perforce thrown into rather close communion, always wonders how affably the newcomer will mix. In the colony lines of nationality blur; personality is more important...
Last week the New Society of Artists opened its seventh exhibition in Manhattan. The place of honor was given to George W. Bellows' unfamiliar War-piece, "The Massacre"-civilian figures huddled in a blur of terror before a firing squad. Stirling Calder, friend of Bellows, exhibited a half-length portrait of the painter in bronze...