Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brass of science and their camp followers, 800 strong, trooped up California's Palomar Mountain last week to dedicate man's newest wonder, the 200-inch telescope. They were told that the giant eye would first be turned on the distant nebulae to test Astronomer Edwin Hubble's theory of the exploding universe. Dr. Hubble's first look at the Corona Borealis cluster (nebulae 120 million light-years away) astounded him. "We had hoped," said Hubble, "that the 200-inch would be this good...
Ralph Cross, who is blind, was faced with an unusual problem: his Seeing Eye dog was going blind, too. Ethel, a German shepherd, had been Cross's faithful guide for seven years. Six months ago cataracts dimmed Ethel's eyes; she began bumping into things, and Cross could no longer trust her in Los Angeles' heavy traffic...
When the Los Angeles Examiner ran a story about it, readers wrote in recalling that a Los Angeles eye surgeon, Dr. H. George Blasdel, had removed cataracts from his own cocker spaniel. Dr. Blasdel agreed to operate on Ethel...
They exchanged some grim statistics: the height and weight of traditionally healthy Finnish children are 10% to 15% below prewar average; the average weight of Yugoslav children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among...
...Televiewers last week got a look at a radio program in action, We the People. It looked worse than it sounded. A guest named Evil-Eye Finkle made evil eyes at the camera; Mrs. Spencer Tracy fastened her eyes to the script; Fred Allen mostly looked glum; Nat ("King") Cole sang Nature Boy and Composer Eden Ahbez showed his curls. Master of Ceremonies Dwight Weist went his own way, all but ignoring the prying eye of the telecamera...