Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week entered their courtroom to hear what was still to be said. The great columned chamber was jammed with notables. Down in front sat Pennsylvania's George Wharton Pepper, counsel for Hoosac Mills, with his client, Mr. Butler, beside him. Farther back sat Mrs. Pepper with an admiring eye on her frock-coated husband. On hand for the fun was Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman. Senator Costigan of Colorado had to stand. Down in front sat Attorney General Cummings and near him Solicitor General Stanley Reed who was to argue for the Government. The nine old gentlemen swished into...
...Selassie finally agreed that the time had come to meet the Italians in open battle, let it be known that he would hurry north to lead 600,000 men against Marshal Badoglio. Stupid indeed was the announcement of the Italian embassy in London in the face of dozens of eye-witness accounts...
...burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton Simon expounded in great detail a method of identification which no criminal could circumvent without blinding himself. Dr. Simon would use the pattern of blood vessels in the circular backdrop of the eye. Almost infinitely various is this network in different people, and the chance that two persons might have the same pattern is as fantastically improbable as identical fingerprints. Age or disease may change the character of the eye veins and arteries, but not their position...
...years (1920-26), Dr. Simon was a New York City deputy police commissioner. Later he had a laboratory on the Bowery for psychiatric examination of Manhattan's human flotsam. The eye-pattern idea was suggested to him by Dr. Isadore Goldstein, ophthalmologist of Mount Sinai Hospital, who in working out the system took care of the anatomical angle. Drs. Simon and Goldstein were joined by a small grey man named Allan Broms, an expert handler of charts and graphs...
...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...