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...hauling the enemies of peace into the limelight in order to attack them, Professor Prall put his hand on the heart of the whole problem. The causes of war, especially among democratic nations which are supposed to work out their own destiny, are so ephemeral and hard to distinguish that historians years later are at odds as to exactly what started the conflagration. The mass of the electorate can judge of economic rivalries with little accuracy, and the patriot and potential profiteer look much alike. So far the Senate munitions investigations have made the best efforts to expose...
Renouncing the artistic novelties which distinguish the work of Man Ray and his followers, Dr. Porter none the less manages to achieve an individuality of spirit which makes his pictures striking examples of the creative possibilities of the camera. Largely through a fineness of subject selectivity, a skillful perceptive of light values and a delicate sensitivity to line, Dr. Porter has infused his pictures with an integrated completeness and a highly pleasing simplicity of form. They are in no sense to be classed as photographic tours de force, but command attention as highly skillful camera creations...
...iris lies the crystalline lens, which focuses light images upon the retina. Leukoma may occur when the cornea is struck by a blow, is spattered with hot fluids or metals, or is diseased by smallpox, tuberculosis, trachoma, gonorrhea, syphilis. Provided that a person with an opaque cornea 1) can distinguish between light and dark and 2) has completely recovered from any contagious disease, Dr. Filatov last week declared that he could generally restore eyesight through the following corneal graft procedures...
...young nephew. He had his first hunt, and was blooded (given the accolade of a dab of blood on the cheeks, from a torn bit of the killed fox). He sneaked away to cockfights, hunted rats, drank in wisdom and tall tales from his elders. He learned to distinguish the distant hounds by their baying, how to tell when they were on the right line. When the year came full circle, Duncan's story and the fox's drew nearer & nearer together. The Cap'n's hunt made up in enthusiasm and skill what it lacked...
From Vienna, where he had read of the Congressional appropriation financing U. S. Peace Commissioners for winding up the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wisecracked in 1899: "At a public function in a European court all foreign representatives except ours wear clothes which in some way distinguish them. . . . But our representative appears in a plain black swallowtail. . . . It is found in all countries; it is as international as a nightshirt...