Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruddy-faced, bull-necked person of tall, heavy build, with a heavy, furrowed jaw, a forehead protruding from a tangle of coarse, dark hair; small, dark, shiny eyes, and thick lips under the drooping mustache? Stambuliski has a sullen air which is sometimes lit up by a spark of jovial energy. Physically he is a butcher, with an intelligent eye; morally lie has an iron will at the beck of simple ideas, which are sometimes vague; much sullen conceit, more pride; a good dose of courage; no more scruples than absolutely required; the art, of flattering men's passions...
...length of queue depending upon the success of the play?then the whistle Wows and you all crowd in and try to grab the nearest available seat to the barrier that cages the pit-devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need present no complexity if you are in fit form to fight...
...grafted eyes produced by Koppanyi look normal, and it is said that ihe animals show normal reflexes to the stimulus of light. Proof is difficult, however, that the nerves of the transplanted organs have actually united with the native nerves, and a violent discussion has been aroused among medical men. A number of European savants are convinced of the achievement, including Prof. Gustav Kolmar, Vienna physiologist, and Dr. D. D. R. Burt, of St. Andrew's University, Scotland, who has himself transplanted eyes in toads. But the majority of eye specialists and many physiologists and biologists, are dubious...
...Memories of Travel." As the title would suggest, the book is a series of essays or sketches describing some of the places visited by the author during his long and busy life. Ranging from the account of a youthful adventure in Iceland, written in 1872, to a bird's-eye view of "The Scenery of America" as gained in his last visit to this country in 1921, the book not only gives us delightful descriptions of peoples and places, but also traces Viscount Bryce's development as a writer...
Ever since civilization began, science has thus kept pace with the evil effects arising from its development. The perfection of eye-glasses followed upon the introduction of the printing press, surgery was stimulated by the invention of gunpowder and artillery, and gas-masks appeared soon after the introduction of gas as a weapon of offence. But medical science has more than kept pace with disease. At a dinner of prominent physicians it was possible to state that the man of today can reasonably expect ten years more of life than the man of a century and a half...