Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wiggins Trade School stepped into the entrance hall, bugged his eyes. Overnight the two upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched...
Last week Dr. Emanuel M. (for euphony) Josephson, Manhattan eye & ear specialist, announced in Science that he had at last ascertained the true cause of glaucoma and could cure it with a drug...
Such leakage occurs in glaucomatous eyes. Dr. Josephson reasoned, probably because the patient's adrenals supply too little cortin. He bought some cortin at a drugstore, injected it into the muscles of glaucomatous patients. Usually within half an hour eye pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...
...Those two Yale scientists found, as have other physiologists, that nicotine makes the adrenal glands excrete adrenalin which makes the liver and muscles pour their stored-up sugar into the blood stream where it becomes available for work, pleasure or refreshment. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. focused the magnifying eye of its advertising department upon that minuscule chip in the large mosaic of scientific facts about tobacco, burst forth with this advice: "Get a Lift with a Camel...
...Only the first six magnitudes are visible to the naked eye. Limit of Mt. Wilson's giant telescope is the 20th magnitude. †Brother John is now Professor John Shapley, Chairman of University of Chicago's Department...