Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President J. B. George of State Teachers College Hattiesburg, Miss., may occasionally run a practiced eye along the floors of the college halls. If he does, it is caused by force of habit that has lingered more than 20 years. In 1915 Freshman J. B. George modestly started his State Teachers College career in flurries of dust and dirt. He swept campus halls, dug up campus stumps, and hoped for nothing more from the college than a diploma thoroughly earned...
...organization that runs on several unusual principles: If any usher gets caught taking a bribe for a favor, the Frain organization gets no pay that day. Ushers must go through a training course, may not smoke on jobs, must take regular exercise, have regular drill under the eye of an exMarine, marching to their own bugle corps. Most are high-school or college boys and Andy Frain likes to think he has helped put more men through school than any other person...
Last week was a week of torment for a Chicago dentist and his wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned...
...kindly people pulled his will to-&-fro, as death came closer to his infant daughter each day, Dentist Colan cried: "God gave her the eyes. Why take them from her?" But he finally sat with a jury of ten doctors and two rabbis, concurred with a decision to have the infant's left eye excised, an operation which was immediately performed...
...American Optical Co.'s gadget, light from an illuminated test chart first passes through a disk of Polaroid. The person being tested looks through a pair of polarizing lenses, one vertical, one horizontal. By rotating the first disk, the examiner can cut out the vision of either eye at will, so that the subject does not know with which eye he is seeing. It is thus impossible for him, if he is faking an injury in one eye or the other, to give a reading which is consistent with the examiner's manipulations...