Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peoria, Ill., the people who favor prohibition know William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson. Some have seen their hero in times past. Many have seen his pictures, know well his single eye. So when it was advertised that William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson would speak in person, not by radio?hundreds tumbled out into the inclement, spring, into a bandbox auditorium. Listening to the one-eyed one, their hearts warmed, their ideals revived, their purses opened...
...best ear, eye and rib hospitals are these...
This astounding mechanism?the Fiske Reading Machine?consists of a small spring-tongs on which are mounted a lens for one eye, a shield for the other and a rack to hold reading matter?really a very simple contrivance, something like a, stereoscope, except that you use one eye instead of two, and the lens is a more powerful magnifier. But the important part of this invention is not the mechanism but the use. For it will, asserted the Admiral, "render printing presses and typesetting machinery obsolete," "revolutionize the publishing industry," "make glasses unnecessary." By its help books will...
Flippant people, however, raised an objection to the reading machine. They referred to its inventor as "Old Admiral Dead-eye"; stated, "If a man does all his reading from one side of his head, he stands a good chance of being crossed in love by his own eyes...
...early experiments with the principle, both eyes were used in reading. I found however, that only one was necessary and, indeed, that the use of but one had many advantages. Two eyes are needed to determine distances, but the finest work by the human eye in using astronomical telescopes, microscopes and range finders is done with one eye exclusively...