Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...celluloid cup performing the function of lenses and inserted in the eye-socket so that light can reach the optic nerve of a blind man has been invented by Professor Katz, a Rus-sian opthahlmologist, according to newspaper stories from Petrograd. The withered tissue in the front part of the ball has been cut away and the semi-artificial eye inserted in eight patients, with restoration of sight. A reputable journalist ? Mr. Samuel Spewack, of The New York Worlds-sponsors the announcement and claims to have seen the operation demonstrated...
Sarazen meanwhile has finished his labor in the land of celluloid and returned to open the spring season at the Briar cliff Lodge Club (Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.), where he is employed as professional at a salary reputed to be larger than that of most of the members...