Word: eyeglass
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...transistor, a sliver of germanium or silicon no bigger than a shoelace tip, with wisps of wire attached. It is the missing electronic link that is making possible a host of new devices, e.g., a wrist radio, a hearing aid so tiny that it fits inside an eyeglass frame. In a jet fighter the use of transistors cuts 1,500 Ibs. from the plane's weight. Last week the mighty mite had the electrical industry racing madly to expand transistor production: Motorola is putting up a $1,500,000 plant in Phoenix; Westinghouse is building in Youngwood...
Beethoven: "Eyeglass" Duet for Viola and Cello (Joseph de Pasquale and Samuel Mayes; Boston). One of the most recently discovered Beethoven treasures (first published in 1912 ), this one is puckishly scored "with two eyeglasses obbligato." Scholars are still puzzling over what this notation means; Beethoven may have simply wanted to say: "Take a close look at the notes, boys, and play it right." Boston Symphony First Deskmen de Pasquale and Mayes play it so right and so resonantly that it sometimes sounds like a full quartet...
...wasn't. Last week the bill providing for the denture and eyeglass charges went before the House of Commons. Bevan's followers fought it hard. When Tories criticized the National Health Service for being so extravagant as to provide free treatment even for foreigners in Britain, Bevan indignantly cited a 14th Century monk who "was captured by Barbary pirates and taken to Arabia as a prisoner. He fell sick, was in the hospital for six months, and was treated entirely free . . . The infidels of Arabia were more Christian than the Tory party...
...does not look the part. His scholarly forehead, his small, sparkling eyes, his massive and majestic beard set him apart from other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...
...forbidding Averoff prison. Scores of political prisoners passed from British to ELAS custody. Averoffs condemned quisling, potbellied, bemonocled Ioannis Rallis, bolted while the prison was changing hands. Two days later, with both British and ELAS hot on his trail, he surrendered to the Greek police. He still wore his eyeglass...