Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your footnote, "When Siamese King Prajadhipok journeyed to the U. S. to have a cataract scraped from his eyes. . . ." (TIME, March 6) makes it apparent that you share with many others the erroneous idea that a cataract is a "growth over the eye," and that the way to remove it is to "scrape...
...your information-a cataract is an opacity of the crystalline lens- that powerful and highly transparent little lens within the eye whose function it is to bring rays of light to a focus upon the retina. Due to injury, extreme heat, or any one of a number of causes, this lens may become translucent and eventually opaque. Since all rays of light must pass through the crystalline lens to be received upon the retina, it is easy to see how a loss of transparency results in serious impairment to the vision. Science knows of no way to remove a lenticular...
While Bridge Expert Alfred Maximilian Gruenther & wife sat watching a Baltimore hockey game, the puck lofted over the barrier, blacked Mrs. Gruenther's right eye...
...bill signed by President Hoover day before he left office. An important revision of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. the measure represented a final thrust by a dying Congress at the dragon of private debt. By providing machinery whereby an individual could compose or compromise his debts under a judicial eye, it required only a bare majority of creditors to effect an agreement...
...Karl Petersen, who promptly resigned. The flag soon broken out above Hamburg's City Hall was neither the Republican nor the Hohenzollern banner. Having won the election under borrowed colors, the Nazis hoisted the Nazi flag: red. with a black swastika in its round white bull's eye...