Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanley Cup, hockey's World Series, Ranger Goalie Lome Chabot was hit in the eye by a flying puck. Manager Lester Patrick, who was 44, had quit the ice two years before, and had never played goal in his life, got into Chabot's sweaty armor and skates. He let only one puck get past him, held on against a furious Montreal Maroons' attack until Boucher scored the winning Ranger goal...
...particles was by "scintillations." Using a microscope, early atomic physicists counted the tiny flashes of light that are made by particles from radium as they hit a fluorescent screen. As soon as Geiger tubes and other radiation detectors were developed, physicists gave up this tedious method. Counting scintillations by eye and microscope was about the most tiresome routine in physics...
Last week Dr. George B. Collins of the University of Rochester announced that he has developed an automatic scintillation counter with an electronic eye. Dr. Collins uses a disc of anthracene (a coal tar product that is kin to the naphthalene in mothballs). The disc gives off flashes of light when atomic particles shoot through it. Dr. Collins does nothing so crude as to watch the flashes of light with his eye and a microscope. He pipes the light through a Lucite rod into a photomultiplier tube that can count as many as 100,000 flashes a second...
...cyclotron at Carnegie Institution of Washington. The date was Dec. 31, 1943. Unexpectedly, the cyclotron worked on its first trial. Cowie was hit by a charge of neutrons that may have been as much as 15 million volts. In spite of three operations, he is now blind in one eye. He can barely see out of the other, but hopes it will improve after an operation...
...long, wintry start, into a really gay intimate revue. Hailing from the West Coast, it often has a rough-diamond, loud-check sense of fun about it; and can be strenuously youthful as well as unpolished. But it has the greatest of assets for an intimate revue-a satiric eye and sassy tongue; and when it manages to be deft and daft at once, is thoroughly hilarious...